Firefox 3 hates MSDN blogs

[kleinma]

While viewing (or trying to view) a few MSDN blogs under Firefox 3, it crashes everytime.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/
http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/
etc....

[mendhak]

I think it's you. Working fine here.

[kleinma]

ok... try going to msdn.microsoft.com

and then click on the blog link from there

[mendhak]

Still you.

I'm trying everything. Do you have any addons installed? They are rather... notorious at times.

[techgnome]

It's not the blogs... it's MSDN itself... or rather probably it's AJAX or one of the Javascripts they have. When I restored my sessions the blogs came up just fine. BUT, when I then tried to leave MSDN by closing the tab.... yeah, I had to open F3 w/o restoring my sessions to get out of the loop.

-tg

[kleinma]

so techgnome you did see the crash?

Mend, no I have no addons, as I generally use IE, and Firefox just for testing scenarios.

It really is not a big deal to me, as I am sure mozilla or MS or whoever will fix the issue eventually. I just thought it was odd that it was bad enough to force the browser to crash.

[mendhak]

You mean it's just me???

[kleinma]

here is a screen demo of it happening

http://www.zerosandtheone.com/public...efoxcrash.html

[wossname]

It's probably just Apache refusing to serve up such tripe as MS insists on passing for "documentation".

[kregg]

I'm good here.

[timeshifter]

All working fine.

[penagate]

here is a screen demo of it happening

http://www.zerosandtheone.com/public...efoxcrash.html

Unlike the MSDN blogs, that one didn't work for me.


What was that phrase you used? Oh yes...

sounds like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

That phrase is much funnier when it's left as 'PEBKAC Error'.

[Foxer]

here is a screen demo of it happening

You are the very definition of geek.

Will you marry me?

[kregg]

Unlike the MSDN blogs, that one didn't work for me.


What was that phrase you used? Oh yes...

Good point, I couldn't get the screen demo working too...

[techgnome]

Neither could I.... but MSDN crashes for me too in FF3... so the phenomenon is reproducable.... I think it's either with their AJAX or Silverlight.... I don't think I've installed SL since upgrading to FF3.

-tg

[kleinma]

screen demo wouldn't play in Firefox for some reason..It works in IE. I used some open source screen capture to swf utility, so there is probably just some HTML tagging problem with it...

Anyway, if you did want to see it, you can just view the SWF directly.

http://www.zerosandtheone.com/public_files/ff_crash.swf