Re: Firebug crashing Firefox for some sites

> I've noticed similar problems and have javascript.options.strict set
> true. Setting to false will stop the freeze?
>
> On Oct 17, 12:31 pm, John J Barton <johnjbar...@...>
> wrote:
>
> > The referenced site useshttp://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?