From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:00:24 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1529 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Tuesday 07 August 2007 Number 1529 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Firefox 2006 broken website problem : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:12:36 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: Firefox 2006 broken website problem On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:17:29 +1000 (EST), Ian Manners wrote: Hi Ian, and thanks for the previous help. However, the problem became UN-fixed tonight GRR! >Other things to try, while Firefox isnt running, all the standard >things you would do on a reinstall. (backup first) I made a D:\Moz_Save folder to put things into, and did one thing at a time. > >delete your "MOZILLA_HOME\profile\chrome" directory Moved it out - no effect >del MOZILLA_HOME\mozilla\pluginreg.dat Moved it out - no effect >del \firefox\components\compreg.dat Didn't find any there but did find one in D:\MOZPROFILES\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\dx6k4um4.default\compreg.dat Moved it out to Moz_Save No difference - pages still crash the browser. Left it there. >del MOZILLA_HOME\mozilla\Profiles\profile\XUL.mfl No such file/s... ? >delete your "MOZILLA_HOME\profile\*.rdf" No such files ...? The problem still looked like Flash. I went to eCS USA site, and clicked on the Flash button (a la FlashBlock) and bingo - Firefox closed. So to the Plugins folder, and uninstalled Flash 5 completely. Re-installed Flash 7 R68. yes, I did two things at once. No improvement - news dot com dot au still crashed Firefox out of existence. My only consolation is that the same thing happens with the Age site - their Flash movies also crash Firefox. So I test now with eCS USA, which loads a lot faster than the media sites. I am pleased to have a consistent error - every time I click on the Flash button, Firefox closes. If I disable FlashBlock, any site with Flash crashes Firefox, including eCS. I have uninstalled Flash 5, and uninstalled and then re-installed Flash 7 R68. I think I have narrowed down the problem to some automatically invoked Flash function. My logic goes like this: 1. If I whitelist a site in Flashblock, then the rules say "run the Flash" and the site crashes the browser. 2. If I don't whitelist the site, the Flash buttons appear and as long as I leave them alone, the site stays up. 3. But if I click a Flask (blocked) button, then Flash is called, but some component must be missing and so the browser dies. 4. I have removed all news dot com dot au, all theage dot com dot au and ecomstation dot com from the Flashblock whitelist. Now the Herald Sun site doesn't crash the browser, and I see occasional Flash buttons - as one would expect. But over at parent news dot com dot au there must be something which Flashblock doesn't catch, and which fires off Flash, thus killilng the browser. And likewise at the Age site, as long as I don't try one of their movies which invokes Flash, I am fine. 5. Now I re-enable the Add-On MediaPlayer Connectivity, and set it to handle Flash in say d:\gnash\gnash.exe. On the Age site there is one "Play" button to do with Fashion Week Spring Fling. This opens a new window and shows the usual Flash "please wait" circular animation, then kills off both the child window and the whole browser. I don't even see the MPC icon (a film frame with sprocket holes) before it crashes everything. 6. When I check MPC Configuration, I scroll down and see a separate but previously hidden option for playing Shockwave. Selecting that to also use d:\gnash\gnash.exe gives me some progress. Now the Fashion Week item launches in the same tab/window and tells me there is a missing plugin. Well, it actually says "additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page." How very informative - no details on which plugin is missing, though :-(. So back to news dot com dot au with the shockwave checked on in MPC. However no change - it still crashes the entire browser. :-( Now I am not sure if I have made any progress. What do I need for Flash/Shockwave to play nicely with my system? Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------