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Title: Firefox Crashes
Post by: BravoLima on December 20, 2009, 12:14:00 AM

I am getting browser crashes when listening to a feed using the flash player and firefox current version.  is this a known bug, or is there something I'm doing wrong?

Bruce

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dannews on December 20, 2009, 01:26:55 AM

Heya,

Happens for me too. Would be interested to hear.

Dan.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: Fryy/Avocadoflight on December 20, 2009, 05:32:34 AM

yep. i noticed that awhile ago too.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: ect76 on December 21, 2009, 05:11:37 PM

Same here. Doesn't seem to be an issue with the Java player though, so if you don't want to use WMP or iTunes Java seems to be the way forward!

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: TheRichLife on December 21, 2009, 10:32:16 PM

its been happening to me a few times on Windows Media Player when I'm listening to the airports broadcast. Hopefully they'll come out with a fix

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 02:03:25 PM

Appears to be a bug or memory leak in the Flash Player - may take a while to fix.  But I have seen this before, in isolated cases.  Hard to reproduce reliably.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: BravoLima on December 22, 2009, 02:14:09 PM

hahaha!  Mine reproduces it every single time!

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 02:15:17 PM

What version of Firefox?  What operating system?

As you can imagine, there are a fair number of variables involved in tracking down a bug like this.   :-)

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: BravoLima on December 22, 2009, 02:18:16 PM

Firefox 3.5.6,  windows xp sp3.   But it doesn't happen with internet explorer.

Bruce

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 02:22:55 PM

Quote from: BravoLima on December 22, 2009, 02:18:16 PM

Firefox 3.5.6,  windows xp sp3.   But it doesn't happen with internet explorer.

Bruce

Thanks Bruce...typically I recommend people avoid IE except when necessary.  Except now!  :-)

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 02:24:46 PM

Also, what version of Flash Player? 9.x?  10.x?  I assume you are on 10.x.something.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: BravoLima on December 22, 2009, 02:28:50 PM

I don't know....how do I find that on firefox?

Bruce

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 02:30:41 PM

Go to any web page with a Flash Player (YouTube, etc.) then right-click on the player and select "About..." - that will display a page with the version number.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: BravoLima on December 22, 2009, 02:35:26 PM

Ok.  it is flash player # 10.0.32.18 but it appears that it needs updating....

Bruce

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 02:37:33 PM

Try the update obviously, but not sure it will help.  This is apparently a frequent issue on Firefox.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 03:06:35 PM

Clear your browser cache, quit Firefox, relaunch and try again.  I upgraded the SWF.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: dave on December 22, 2009, 04:19:22 PM

I can reliably reproduce the crash here...whether it is due to the same root problem as yours I am not sure.  But will do more digging.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: jmx53 on December 22, 2009, 09:23:54 PM

I use winamp v5.56 and have had no problems, though this limits me to listening to one feed at a time.

Firefox 3.5.6 with Windows XP sp3 will stay connected for awhile, but will crash eventually.

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: ect76 on December 22, 2009, 10:54:57 PM

I'm the same - Firefox 3.5.6, Windows 7 Ultimate &  Flash version 10.0.32.18. Reproduces it reliably for me too  :-D

Not an issue though, I just use Java!

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: Biff on December 23, 2009, 09:24:10 AM

Quote from: jmx53 on December 22, 2009, 09:23:54 PM

I use winamp v5.56 and have had no problems, though this limits me to listening to one feed at a time.

Sorry for OT, but you can listen to multiple feeds with Winamp.  Options->Preferences->General Preferences and then check "Allow multiple instances"

Title: Re: Firefox Crashes
Post by: BravoLima on December 23, 2009, 02:38:28 PM

Well, I updated my flash player to the current version and now it seems to be stable.  No crashes so far.  I will do some more listening....

Bruce