firefox crashes whenever i open a vine
Hi,
Whenever I try to open a web page that has a vine video in it, firefox crashes. This happens everytime. Even opening http://www.vine.co will crash firefox. I noticed the same thing with this website www.flashscore.com, whenever a team scores, firefox crashes. I tried running firefox in safe mode, I even made a complete uninstall and reinstalled, same thing. I really don't want to use another browser. Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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hello disappea, what kind of sound card are you using? mozilla's developers are working on a fix for some models which crash on certain html5 audio contents, which should currently already be present in firefox nightly - for details you can also refer to bug #970147.
in addition to what was said there, you could try to disable sound "enhancements" in the windows speaker device properties as a temporary workaround...
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hello disappea, what kind of sound card are you using? mozilla's developers are working on a fix for some models which crash on certain html5 audio contents, which should currently already be present in firefox nightly - for details you can also refer to bug #970147.
in addition to what was said there, you could try to disable sound "enhancements" in the windows speaker device properties as a temporary workaround...
Hi Edmeister,
I should say a few things.
Just tried downgrading to Firefox 26.0 and the problem was immediately solved. However Firefox upgraded itself to 27.0 again and problem came back as soon as upgraded.
Since I did a clean install there is only 2 crash reports. However I can generate more if it would be any help to you.
I couldn't figure out how to copy the whole crash report so I'm sending you the crash report links, hope it will work.
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/e51d24d8-d4ed-4bd6-8b04-8a1692140225
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/cc62fe54-fbaa-43a3-b163-0469f2140225
Thank you very much.
yes, that's the issue i've already suspected - for details please see my prior reply.
Dear Philipp,
Thank you! I am using Creative Soundblaster X-fi Titanium and disabling enhancements seems to have worked. Can enter vine.co without firefox crashing.
Thank you very very much!
I would like to add that I am having this exact same problem since upgrading to Fire Fox 27. I am using the Sound Blaster Titanium HD sound card. If I check the "Disable Sound Blaster Enhancement" box in my control panel then I no longer crash when opening certain videos. If I uncheck the box and try to open those same videos I instantly crash. This was not happening under FF 26.
I hope they find a fix since disabling a major feature of my sound card is not an option I plan to use for very long. I know Chrome does not have this problem. Thanks
@JohnD212, the fix is going to ship with the next firefox version 28 (due mid-march).
Great news! I can't wait as long as I know a fix is coming. Thanks!