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Firefox CLOSES (no crash message) when websites with streaming video are loaded.

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Before it is suggested, I have fully updated the browser, and updating flash more times than I can count. In addition, this has been going on through many firefox updates, so it is not limited to just the recent update.

I run Firefox on OSX Tiger, and for about a year now firefox has about a 50% chance of randomly closing whenever I view a website that has streaming video content. Some examples are ESPN, Hulu, MLB.tv and YouTube.

It is NOT an official crash though. No crash reports are registered, no error messages are given, Firefox simply closes completely with not so much as a "terminal error" pop-up. I usually have to watch content from sites that use steaming content on Safari just because Firefox is so unstable on my system when loading ANY video content.

This issue is NOT limited to flash, as Firefox will do the same thing with non-flash video with pretty much the same regularity.

PLEASE don't just tell me to update again, I've done that countless times for each and every update of Firefox in the last year. It has NEVER worked. Although I'm 95% sure that flash is installed fine, because I never have any problems with it on Safari.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Currently Using Firefox 3.6.7 OSX 10.4.11

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/533.16

Before it is suggested, I have fully updated the browser, and updating flash more times than I can count. In addition, this has been going on through many firefox updates, so it is not limited to just the recent update. I run Firefox on OSX Tiger, and for about a year now firefox has about a 50% chance of randomly closing whenever I view a website that has streaming video content. Some examples are ESPN, Hulu, MLB.tv and YouTube. It is NOT an official crash though. No crash reports are registered, no error messages are given, Firefox simply closes completely with not so much as a "terminal error" pop-up. I usually have to watch content from sites that use steaming content on Safari just because Firefox is so unstable on my system when loading ANY video content. This issue is NOT limited to flash, as Firefox will do the same thing with non-flash video with pretty much the same regularity. PLEASE don't just tell me to update again, I've done that countless times for each and every update of Firefox in the last year. It has NEVER worked. Although I'm 95% sure that flash is installed fine, because I never have any problems with it on Safari. Thank you for any help you can give me. Currently Using Firefox 3.6.7 OSX 10.4.11 == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/533.16

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also, I posted this from Safari, in case that "UserAgent" stuff looks off from what I am using.

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just got the notification about FF 3.6.8 installed it, reinstalled flash just for paranoia's sake

problem still occurring. please help.

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does anyone have any ideas?

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Same prob with me. I don't knw what happens, but when I open certain topics on my forum, it suddenly closes!

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Anytime I try to open this page, even in safe mode it just closes. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

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I am the OP and I also have the same problem with using HTML5 video.

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I am having the same problem