Is this a firefox bug or is it just my system

perfect_circle · 12-28-2005, 12:21 PM

I have slackware current.
I just updated it yesterday, with kernel 2.6.14.3 and firefox 1.5

Firefox crashes whenever I visit this page:
http://thepiratebay.org/legal.php

Can somebody with firefox 1.5 check it please?
I've already sent the problem with the mozilla quality check agent, but I'm curious to know if this happens only with me.

nephish · 12-28-2005, 12:50 PM

wow, i just tried to go there in epiphany 1.4.8 in debian sarge.
the whole browser crashed.

i will be checking this thread also

jrdioko · 12-28-2005, 12:52 PM

Works fine for me (2.4.31, Slack 10.0, Firefox 1.5). It has a flash-looking thing on it (http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php), which is the only thing unusual I can see. I got to a point where Firefox kept crashing almost every time I went to a page with Java on it, but removing/upgrading the JRE fixed that. Something going on with flash integration, perhaps?

raska · 12-28-2005, 12:57 PM

Why don't you try Opera Browser? It's free, nice and fast.
I've been using it since version 6.0 so I never dropped it for Firefox, though both are quite neat.
Not a Firefox fan here.

perfect_circle · 12-28-2005, 01:14 PM

I think it's the graph under

Quote:

Nice graphs for the law firms who don't get the hint above:

That is causing the problem. It's the damn flash plugin....
It's works fine with opera 8.5 but it also crushes with mozilla which is using the same plug-in with firefox.

With konqueror it just asks me to install the flash plugin.

liquidtenmilion · 12-28-2005, 01:15 PM

It just crashed my Epiphany 1.8.3.(built on top of firefox 1.5)

As to why i don't use opera. It's QT. I don't have/use QT, and using a QT app in a pure gtk2 environment doesn't look too good. Plus opera takes about 3 seconds longer to startup than epiphany does.

There are also less plugins available for Opera.(Mplayerplugin 3 for example) In Gecko browsers, i can do everything on any page exactly as someone using IE in windows, and infact better than someone using Firefox in windows.(With Opera i have to open a seperate instance of firefox whenever a page embeds a video)

raska · 12-28-2005, 01:24 PM

gxine plug-in does the trick here.
I use Opera's mail client too, both (browser and mail) are important parts at my work

perfect_circle · 12-28-2005, 01:27 PM

this is strange....
I removed the flash plug-in, then firefox prompted to install it,
it installed the very same version:
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25
and now it works....It does not crush any more

PTrenholme · 12-28-2005, 01:33 PM

Works fine for me: Fedora Core 4 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4smp, FF 1.5, Flash Pugin installed. Also MPlayer and Xine and their plugins.

liquidtenmilion · 12-28-2005, 07:22 PM

The Gxine plugin just opens up a separate instance of gxine and plays the video in that. It does not embed the video in the web page like mplayerplugin does. (As the website developers intended) Unless i missed an option for it. But i've since removed it in favor of totem anyway.

Imagine if the flash plugin didn't embed in sites, but opened in a separate program outside the browser. Moving from mplayerplugin to gxine would be exactly like that.

perfect_circle · 12-28-2005, 07:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by liquidtenmilion

The Gxine plugin just opens up a separate instance of gxine and plays the video in that. It does not embed the video in the web page like mplayerplugin does. (As the website developers intended) Unless i missed an option for it. But i've since removed it in favor of totem anyway.

Imagine if the flash plugin didn't embed in sites, but opened in a separate program outside the browser. Moving from mplayerplugin to gxine would be exactly like that.

I never liked the gxine plugin (or gxine) from day one I've used it.
The first thing I do after upgrating slackware is to uninstall gxine.
I also prefer mplayerplugin. It 's really cool