479704 - Black Screen of Death

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Tabbed Browser, defect)

Description

[peterzay]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

vista home premium
was in yahoo mail classic compose mode
clicked another tab shut
got: black screen to reboot normally or in safe mode
upon normal reboot, did not get usual network connection
another cold boot restablished the system


Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce




In general, FF3.1.6 and prior have been very flaky with latest flash on page globeinvestor.com.

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Even if a program (or a plugin in the program, such as Flash as you mention) has a problem, the OS should be stable. If your OS is crashing it's a problem with your OS. Probably your video drivers, so I suggest you try updating those first.

This is not a support site. Please use the articles, forums, and chat at support.mozilla.com for further help.

Comment 2

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

v. Firefox is a user-mode app and by itself cannot crash the kernel.

Comment 3

[Brian McClory]

I'm getting this too