Firefox crash

Scott Pearson pearsonscott2 at qwest.net
Tue Apr 19 03:54:37 UTC 2005


pdcoleman wrote:

>I too have had random crashes of Firefox on two different hardware platforms. It appears to be random as no particular site or sequence seems to trigger it. The frequency is low and may not be reported as a problem. This does make troubleshooting a bitch. It is disturbing it exits without a clue.
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There is one site for me that makes it occur more often than any other 
place, and that is www.jigzone.com, which uses a java applet to create 
online jigsaw puzzles.   Problems did not start appearing there for me 
until I upgraded to Java 1.5 JRE.   I remember that my son has problems 
with it at a game site that uses java heavily for its online game.   The 
problems there either locked up Firefox or caused it to crash with an 
error report, but not disappear without warning.  That was on WinXP.  
And he uses an ATI card.  No NVidia drivers.  But it does not happen at 
all sites using java applets.

My own impression is that it is related to either the java JRE or the 
java applets' programming in the web-page or to Firefox's handling of 
java.   The problems show up on different platforms and also on  ATI  
videocards means it is not Linux related nor is it related to nvidia 
video drivers.




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