Re: Firefox crashes a lot

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Author: Scott
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Subject: Re: Firefox crashes a lot
There is a known exploit available that will crash Firefox 1.5. I have
tested it on several of my own systems. I found it up on
packetstormsecurity.org the other day, and here is the link:

http://packetstormsecurity.org/0606-exploits/moz1504.txt

So probably there are people embedding this into their sites either on
purpose or through plain coding coincidence.

Slide wrote:
> I've seen FF crash on Linux when viewing flash animations with sound,
> that might be related to arts vs. oss, but I'm not sure.
>
> On 6/9/06, Terence Chang <> wrote:
>> I am pure Windows user. I have been using Firefox 99.9% of time,
>> except my
>> wife is using IE.
>>
>> I only have firefox crash issues with Flash and Adobe Acrobat Reader
>> every
>> once a while.
>>
>> Firefox is still the best.
>>
>>
>> Kurt Granroth <> wrote:
>> On Friday 09 June 2006 07:25, Lynn Newton wrote:
>> > I'm just looking for verification that I'm not the only person for
>> > whom Firefox crashes often, in my case three or four times a day.
>> > Sometimes more.
>> >
>> > I'm running version 1.5.0.4 on SuSE Linux 9.2 on x86-64 (AMD 64)
>> > architecture. I'll admit that I drive it pretty hard -- Usually
>> have three
>> > windows open on three slots in my virtual desktop, anywhere from
>> > two to ten or more tabs per window, stuff like RSS (Sage) and a
>> > fistful of extensions (Customize Google, FlashGot, WebDeveloper,
>> > Tab Mix Plus, Image Zoom, ViewSourceWith, Google Toolbar for
>> > Firefox, Google Notebook, also a bunch of Ajax driven stuff --
>> > gmail, Google Calendar, and that sort of interactive stuff.
>> > All of it is up to date.
>> >
>> > So it doesn't surprise me when once in a while it takes a dive, and
>> > so far I've been willing to live with it, since I love Firefox and
>> have
>> > no intention or desire of switching.
>> >
>> > But a widely-used application crashing several times a day?
>> > The only time I've ever experienced that is running Windows.
>> > (Which I almost never do.)
>>
>> I haven't had a "pure" Firefox instance crash on me at all since the
>> days
>> when
>> it was Phoenix. By itself, it's remarkably stable on Linux, OS X, and
>> Windows.
>>
>> However, I've had uncountable crashes related to extensions. Things like
>> Flash cause almost daily 'hangs' and crashes on my daughter's system.
>> Firefox may be stable, but it seems that *anything* you can add on is
>> not!
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