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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 05:45:00 AM UTC
Re: smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution website seems perfectly safe to me. Your browser's instability is not the site's fault and this can hardly be called a browser exploit.
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 07:16:12 AM UTC
I would look around and see
I would look around and see any add-ons I have installed. Also, are you using an alpha or beta version of Firefox?
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 07:34:18 AM UTC
Re: I would look around and see
It sounds like it was the Flash plug-in that crashed. This will take down the whole browser unless plug-ins are run in a different process.
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 05:12:45 PM UTC
FF is less stable for the time being...
I've seen Firefox crash many times lately.
But I don't suspect any particular website.
Rather it seems like the fox
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 09:19:35 PM UTC
smithsonian
I agree about FF crashing and it seems to be Java. If I disable Java and JS it seems to be more stable. 3.6 should fix this problem.
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 09:17:55 PM UTC
smithsonian
I disabled the flash and no more problems, but I agree the latest Firefox is a bit buggy.Java seems the culprit from my experiments. Hurry 3.6 please Mozilla!
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 09:21:08 PM UTC
smithsonian
It was flash/java/JS. Still is buggy hopefully 3.6 will fix.
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 09:21:31 PM UTC
smithsonian
It was flash/java/JS. Still is buggy hopefully 3.6 will fix
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- on Mon 17 Aug 2009
- 10:38:37 PM UTC
re: java
I keep java disabled in all browsers.
It's not Java as much as poor programming on the "developer's" end.Flash has never presented a problem for me, not even on my older machines.
JavaScript (JS) is not Java or even remotely associated to Java... other than the misleading name
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- on Tue 18 Aug 2009
- 02:39:04 AM UTC
smithsonian
g7w,
You know what you say is absolute truth. Poorly designed websites are the #1 reason for Firefox crashes in my opinion. The problems depend on what site I visit. Sites that have a lot of "movement" seem the worst. Since I'm only a viewer and not the writer of the sites I visit I have to put up with what we have.
I really enjoy the info I get from wot forums. Good interesting information. That is a smart person that sees that poorly designed websites lead to crashes.
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smithsonian
Hello,
I was surfing around Smithsonian museums website and was hit with a massive firefox crash. Seemed a flash app caused it. I flagged it red, use caution there friends.