251238 - locks system, have to use reset button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jim sherman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

When running firefix 0.9.0,1,2 with macromedia flash if the info does not appear
when expected or maybe before?; Windows explorer locks up. I can't do a three
key salute and have task manager show up; or sometimes when it does, Ican't get
the application window to open or running tasks to open. I have the latest
"patches" from Microsoft, and Ieven deleted outlook thinking it may be in there.
I have webroot spysweeper, regrun, zone alarm, and adsubtract. The reason for
allthat, I thought it might be my machine was the problem; but it wasn't. I also
have logitech mouse and keyboard with itouch, and donot have desktop messenger.
Some times when I hit the "my home" on the keyboard after I close firefox( i can
close it  when the lock occurs) instead of the caption from logitech being in
green letters, they are white. It's almost as if a pointer is getting framissed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.goto http://www.rr.com/flash/index.cfm?division=134
2.wait
3.sometimes it works sometimes not. sometimes at adifferent website later

Actual Results:  
as described above. I keep thinking it may be related to latest microsoft bugfixes.

Expected Results:  
closed firefox window and allowed other windows to sometimes open normally.
firefox will never reopen.

default theme, no other info or error reporting appears.

Comment 1

[jim sherman]

More info: If I'm waiting for a window to finish loading, and decide to go to a
new website rather than wait, or even press stop; when I select the new site,
I'll get "stopped" in bottom left corner of firefox, I'm dead then. I can close
the firefox window, and run other programs; even task manager(see nothing
wrong). If I try to open firefox again, at that point is when everything locks
up, and have to do reset. I'm running "roadrunner" at 2mbps.

Comment 2

[jim sherman]

It appears as if when a window is loading and there has been a delay with the
window loading; if you then get tired of waiting, and select a new site, hit
reload, or stop, THEN is when it locks the machine, and reboot is the only way
to get out of it. Sometimes if you wait a minute or two(or more) for the screen
to load some more, it's ok. AS I said not even a three key salute will fix it,
you must hit the reset button.

Comment 3

[jim sherman]

Removed fire fox; and switched to Mozilla 1.8A1. Program not only does NOT
crash, but loads significantly faster!!!

Comment 4

[Adam Hauner]

Jim: Mozilla 1.8a2 is already out =)

Comment 5

[jim sherman]

don't know what you did, but with 0.9.3 it works. not slow and hasn't locked up
.....yet

Jim