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    Firefox issues: Blank screen?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by titaniummd, Jun 8, 2006.

  1. titaniummd

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    Does anyone have these issues with Firefox? I get a blank screen when I click on a link. It happens when I am on Amazon.com
    I often have to push the 'Refresh/Reload' button several times before it actually loads the link - quite aggravating.

    Not too many other sites have this problem; I am running the current version. After snooping around, I found these Javascript errors.

    I have NoScripts running and McAffee Security Suite.

    Any solutions? Similar experiences?

    When I have to use amazon, I end up using Opera instead.
     

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    Try reinstalling it onto your system. No, I do not get any errors like that.
     
  3. mk1992

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    just in the last 2 or 3 days, my firefox has been crashing 3 or 4 times a day with no other configuration changes to my system. I am beginning to suspect that the lattest release 1.5.0.4 is not stable. Anybody else seeing the same thing or is it just my system? I use ff and opera and opera is dead stable like before.
     
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    i have the latest version (1.5.0.4) and i have no problems.
     
  5. pt9386

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    @titaniummd, Did you try to disable the NoScripts extension, because that could very well be the cause of the problem?

    @mk1992, When does it crash, when you go to certain sites, and if it does which sites?

    I had the same crashing issue, every time I would log onto my gmail account, crash, it was very frustrating, but I found out it was because of Adblock, I disabled it and FF worked fine. But if it does crash on you frequently get the Session Saver plugin, and you would do a lot less swearing when it crashes than I have done, before I found the extension. The extension saves your sessions if it detects FF crashing, like in Opera, plus it "saves" every tab in every window just in case you need to restart FF and come back to what you were doing.
     
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    my fire fox is stable, 1.5.0.4 is fine with me. maybe it could be noscript like pt9386 says, or could be a possible extensions conflict for both you guys but ive never had a problem, good luck
     
  7. titaniummd

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    I reinstalled FF after cleaning up the registry without Noscripts and no success. I am going to see if McAffee Privacy Service has something to do with it. It may be a cookie that I rejected that I shouldn't have. Thanks for the advice.

    I did notice that this happens on Opera also. No issues with IE; however, so it's a bit of confusion.
     
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    I use FireFox 1.5.0.4 and it is just fine.

    Hope you did manage to use it successfully!
     
  9. mk1992

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    It was failing at random sites like yahoo or msn when I clicked on a link. It seems not to be doing it anymore, so hope it stays that way.