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Closing CTRA chat box crashes Firefox
Just a heads up, there appears to be a problem with the chat box on the CTRA website. I made the mistake of opening it, and everytime I try and close it, Firefox crashes. It's taken multiple attempts at restoring Firefox sessions or starting new ones, to actually get back to the CTRA site in a form that won't crash Firefox again. :-/
Quote from STROBE :Just a heads up, there appears to be a problem with the chat box on the CTRA website. I made the mistake of opening it, and everytime I try and close it, Firefox crashes. It's taken multiple attempts at restoring Firefox sessions or starting new ones, to actually get back to the CTRA site in a form that won't crash Firefox again. :-/

Odd, I have never had the problem....
#3 - SamH
I did make some changes yesterday, which were supposed to be invisible, but I think it messed up somewhere. I can't properly test in FF because I refuse to install QuickTime.

Please give it another try.. I've undone the changes which (in theory) should take it back to a working window again.
I've just tried as many things with the chatroom as I can think of in FireFox 2.0.0.13, no problems at all. Seems you've hunted down the problem. Nice feature, too

Sam
#5 - SamH
That's great, thanks Sam!
Switch to a decent browser? May I suggest Safari?

/me hates Firefox, them deciding, "HAI, LETS BREAK ALL USER INTERFACE THINGS PEOPLE ARE USED TO IN FF3, IT'S BRILLIANT!"
I'm tempted to get safari just so that damned apple updater won't crash me out of any more races. But I refuse to be extorted that way.
I just hate Firefox because they've become idiots with FF3's design. Opera is even worse in my eyes, and IE is... IE. Safari is my only remaining life line, but the positive, is I can atleast learn 1 browser for OSX and Windows.
Ok, you've talked me into it..I'm going to try Safari, though it's going to have to be pretty damn good to move me away from Firefox.

EDIT : Ohh ffs...i see it's Apple. A name that constantly screams 'style over substance' at me.
#10 - SamH
Quote from The Moose :EDIT : Ohh ffs...i see it's Apple. A name that constantly screams 'style over substance' at me.

Ditto!
#11 - wien
Quote from SamH :I can't properly test in FF because I refuse to install QuickTime.

Since when did FF require Quicktime?
Quote from SamH :Ditto!

What a load of cack that was.....No Style or substance

Back to FF for me.
#13 - SamH
Quote from wien :Since when did FF require Quicktime?

The chatroom application plays a .wav sound when someone sends a new line of text. FF looks for Quicktime to play it.
#14 - VoiD
Quote from SamH :The chatroom application plays a .wav sound when someone sends a new line of text...

Oh, really..?

Nothing special to hear with opera 9.5. Just the sound when someone is joining or leaving the chat...
#15 - wien
Huh. Strange that it would do that without Quicktime being installed, but if you say so. My Firefox (2.0.0.12 and 3.0beta5) seems to play the sound just fine, and I haven't let the atrocity that is Quicktime anywhere near my computer.
#16 - Jakg
Quote from wien :Huh. Strange that it would do that without Quicktime being installed, but if you say so. My Firefox (2.0.0.12 and 3.0beta5) seems to play the sound just fine, and I haven't let the atrocity that is Quicktime anywhere near my computer.

Chances are you have Quicktime alternative or similar, though.
#17 - wien
I have a codec pack installed (CCCP), but no special Firefox plugin for Quicktime alternative. I may be the WMP plugin which is bundled with Firefox (isnt' it?) is picking up and playing the WAV, but it should be able to do that without codecs too. That is in fact why I was surprised that Firefox was crying for Quicktime in the first place. Unless Quicktime had been previously installed and cocked about with the mime types that is (which would be just like it).

Anyway, sorry about the OT. I just found the whole thing strange and got obsessive trying to figure out why.
Quote from dawesdust_12 :Switch to a decent browser? May I suggest Safari?

/me hates Firefox, them deciding, "HAI, LETS BREAK ALL USER INTERFACE THINGS PEOPLE ARE USED TO IN FF3, IT'S BRILLIANT!"

Safari! are you crazy?!
My crash log is soo full right now! It crashes when loading multiple minimized pages, new threads, logging in, Youtube, every single Java or Flash application, and to boot, its extremely slow at all of it! I wanna murder my browser!
How the hell do you get something to crash so much?! I'm pretty stupid when it comes to using browsers, like opening my whole of 200 bookmarks into tabs, and it doesn't crash.
#20 - VoiD
Quote from dawesdust_12 :How the hell do you get something to crash so much?! I'm pretty stupid when it comes to using browsers, like opening my whole of 200 bookmarks into tabs, and it doesn't crash.

Well, it was not possible for my to import bookmarks from opera to safari. So I crashed...



























...and erased Safari.
mine doesn't have tabs, and I think its Safari 1.0 running on OS X 10.3.9.
That explains it. You're using a version that's 2.1 versions ancient, where you should expect something to be unstable. Then again, WHY are you still running Panther?! You could have atleast upgraded to Tiger (10.4).

No offence, but you remind me of people with 386's who complain that their computers are slow and expect some magic software to make it faster again.
I dunno, I haven't felt the urge to get a new cat.
I really should upgrade now though, my sister has 10.5 on her install CDs, maybe I'll try that or something.
I dont have any crashing or pop ups problems with any browser. Then again, I dont browse for porn or torrents.

*switches tab to a picture of an LX6*
Corrrrr blimey check out the bodywork on that.
and I do both and have no crashing problems.

Shocking.
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