From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 21:16:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3318416A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:16:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp16.wxs.nl (smtp16.wxs.nl [195.121.6.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF7543D4C for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:16:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marco@beishuizen.info) Received: from [10.0.0.158] (ipd50a233c.speed.planet.nl [213.10.35.60]) by smtp16.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I8X003FLSFOID@smtp16.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:16:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 22:16:36 +0100 From: Marco Beishuizen In-reply-to: <20041218205300.GA38465@keyslapper.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <1103404596.95607.47.camel@yokozuna.lan> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20041218205300.GA38465@keyslapper.org> Subject: Re: Firefox headaches X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: marco@beishuizen.info List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:16:39 -0000 On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 21:53, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Something's not right with firefox. > > Now that I've got the printing problems more or less solved, it > crashes almost every time I hit a page with flash. > > I've got the latest (from ports updated yesterday) native, and > flashplugin-firefox port. Certain websites crash or lock it up at > seemingly random points. > > By crash, I mean I get a firefox-bin.core file in my home directory. > By lock up, I mean it simply stops responding - indefinitely. Once I > just quit for the night and next morning all I had was the window > outline. > > Case in point: http://www.big-boys.com/ This one ALWAYS takes it out. > > Sometimes when loading the main page, sometimes when clicking out to > another bookmark (different domain altogether) and pretty much anytime > an onsite link is clicked. > > I have rebuilt and reinstalled the flash plugin since portupgrading > firefox. I also deinstalled and reinstalled both additions - Noia > theme and TabBrowser extension - latest of both. > > Anyone else? > > I don't really want to switch back to mozilla, but I may have to. Yes, I have the sam experiences. But in my case all mozilla based browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Galeon) crash at sites like that. Browsing over the internet with those browsers is almost impossible for me, they crash at every site with (bad?) javascript or flash, and that are a lot of sites. Now I use Opera again, which is very stable.