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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 2004 00:55:19 +0100
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@uni-mainz.de>
To:        marco@beishuizen.info
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firefox headaches
Message-ID:  <41C4C367.9050205@uni-mainz.de>
In-Reply-To: <1103404596.95607.47.camel@yokozuna.lan>
References:  <20041218205300.GA38465@keyslapper.org> <1103404596.95607.47.camel@yokozuna.lan>

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Marco Beishuizen schrieb:

>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.
>
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>  
>
I made the same experience. I deleted flashplugin for Mozilla and 
Firefox. The only solution.


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