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Re: Firebug crashing Firefox for some sites

by John J Barton :: Rate this Message:

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The referenced site uses http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js
which crashes FF with Firebug.
Do you have javascript.options.strict set true?  Pls URL about:config
for that setting.

On Oct 17, 1:54 am, Kuroi <pe...@...> wrote:

> Firebug is great. Absolutely indispensable. But you know that.
> Unfortunately, about a week ago it started crashing every few pages
> that I tried to load. Hmmm.
>
> The symptom is that the page will part load and then Firefox will
> freeze completely and has to be stopped and re-started. It is a
> completely reproducible problem and so for me happens (for example)
> every time I try to access the following page -http://tutorials.zen-cart.com.
>
> It can be stopped by disabling Firebug for the sites in question. But
> as that's roughly 1in 5 sites that I have tried to visit in the few
> days and Firefox needs to be re-started every time, before the page
> can be disabled for the future, surfing (or research as I prefer to
> call it) has become a real drag.
>
> I was using Firebug 1.05 until this morning, when I upgraded to 1.1b4,
> but have seen no change as a result of the upgrade. Other obvious
> steps like flushing my cache have been done, and I'm not the only
> person having this problem (I've been contacted by others asking if I
> know how to fix it!)
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome. Or is it a real bug?


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