547855 - Firefox 3.6 crashes my computer when reading articles on Mercury news.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[craninter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Firefox 3.6 locks up when I was reading a article on the mercurynews.com & showed at the bottom left corner "Read ds.serving-sys.com".  So, what gives with this website is this a intrusion on my computer??.  It is happing more often for some reason or another.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. clicking on article 
2. read the article while scrolling 
3. for a few minutes then computer locks up.
Actual Results:  
Don't remember exactly but it is described as above question.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Can you please paste the exact article link that you are seeing this on? I surfed a few articles on mercurynews.com using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) and I did not observe this issue. Thanks.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Has the crash reporter come up, and have you submitted the crash info to Mozilla? If not that information would give us a huge head start. Please see
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+crashes for how to submit crashes and use about:crashes to find links to the details you can paste into this bug.

ds.serving-sys.com is an ad provider that uses Flash-based ads, and it's most likely Flash that is crashing. Crashes are more likely if you're running older versions of Flash and you're more at risk for malware infections so please check your plugin versions at https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

craninter ??

Comment 4

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Closing as per whiteboard plan.