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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Does your browser crash?

I'm using Quicktime 7. 2 - Firefox 2.0.0.7 - Flash 9,0,47,0 - on 4 different systems (different configurations), Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Mozilla 1.7.7 at work, nothing happens. If anybody finds any solution, please let me know.

UPDATE:
Jeff (THANKS!!!!) posted this in the comment section:

...actually there's a new quicktime bug that crashes all browsers, that happens every time it updates itself. try this...go into..

quicktime
quicktime preferences
advanced
direct X
disable enable directDraw accelleration, secondary monitors, and video accelleration.

all should be well.


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So, I asked around and no one is having browser crashing problems except my students (which sucks because you guys really need to be able to read the posts). Here is a reply I got from a "tester" which might help:

They can try emptying their cache.

MAC

Clearing Cache on Firefox 2.0 for Macintosh

1. Open Firefox.
2. Click the Firefox menu and select Preferences.
3. Click the Advanced icon and click the Network tab.
4. Click Clear Now under the Cache section.
5. Click the "X" in the top left corner to close the Advanced window.
6. Exit and re-launch the browser.

Winblowz

Clearing Cache on Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0

1. Click Start and select Settings, then Control Panel.
2. Double-click Internet Options.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Click Delete under the Browsing History section.
5. Click Delete Files in the Delete Browsing History dialog box.
6. Click OK.
7. Click Close.
8. Close and relaunch your browser.


Clearing Cache on Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0

1. Click Start and select Settings, then Control Panel.
2. Double-click Internet Options to open Internet Properties.
3. Click Delete Files.
4. Click OK on the Delete Files dialog box.
5. Click OK.

Clearing Cache on Firefox 2.0

1. Click Tools and select Options.
2. Click the Privacy icon.
3. Click Clear Now in the Private Data area.
4. Click Ok.
5. Exit and relaunch the browser
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Also try flushing your DNS cache.

open a command line in windows. Start > Run > (type: CMD)
in the DOS terminal type:
ipconfig /flushdns


So, give that a try.

3 comments:

jeff said...

actually there's a new quicktime bug that crashes all browsers, that happens every time it updates itself. try this...go into..

quicktime
quicktime preferences
advanced
direct X
disable enable directDraw accelleration, secondary monitors, and video accelleration.

all should be well.

Anonymous said...

OMG! I got pissed off from the crash with quicktime! NOW, I'm really happy for the solution.
Thanks alot!!!

Anonymous said...

It is not working for me. It still crashes in Firefox. I am using IE now.

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