FF Crash at Work

[nagan]

FF 3.0.8
I had written about my experience of this site at the old forum albeit for different reasons...I was not able to listen to songs from the site music player. I was wondering whether NS could be a reason ,but there was a cryptic reply from Giorgio that Real Player was needed for playing ,which I already have. But there seems to be more to it..Why even after subsequent FF updates it still is happening I wonder (though the crash has been automatically reported).

Just to make sure I am not alone with this result.If you wanna try ...FINISH ALL YOUR LEGITIMATE WORKS IN ALL TABS/WINDOWS AND START FRESH...

Clean Profile
1.Site-- http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/

2.Fill in "slumdog millionaire" (without quotes) in the search box at the top.

3.Get the results. Just select this song Jai Ho and double click.

BANG..

With NS
1 and 2 as above. You have to allow Raaga.com for searching.

3.as above

You get a music player which won't bat an eyelid and test your patience.

Allow the extension object from NS icon and you are through...

[therube]

Not able to get the testcase to work.

First, looks like it requires Real Player, which I don't have.
Second, in general will not allow playback from USA.

Using proxy though, I can at least get the "player" to display, though without Real, thats as far as I can get.
Using this proxy, http://noblocking.us/, looks like it should work.

Perhaps a more direct link for others even without a proxy? This will probably at least bring up the player. (Or try revising the URL, truncating from &rand.*.)

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http://www.raaga.com/playerV31/index.asp?pick=147986&mode=3&rand=0.9892671101577915&bhcp=1?

[Alan Baxter]

It still works for me, nagan, just like it did when we discussed this test case on the Moz forums. I'm in the US and have the Real Player Alternative installed. I allowed Java, Flash, Silverlight, and other plugins from the NoScript Options dialog and the player worked without any problem. See below for what I did.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean:

You get a music player which won't bat an eyelid and test your patience.

The player that popped up seemed to hang, but instead of finding a placeholder to click, I did the following:
- Closed and reopened Firefox
- Unticked Forbid Java, Flash, Silverlight, and other plugins in NoScript Options > Plugins
- Repeated test steps
- The player pops up, plays an ad, then plays Jai Ho.

I repeated the test after Forbidding the plugins I allowed in Options, but the player still works. I don't know why. I'm running Firefox 3.0.9 RC2, with the latest NoScript in a clean test profile: default theme, no other extensions. I doubt the reason it works is because of my Firefox version, but perhaps someone else that has a Real Player or Real Player Alternative installation can verify.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.9) Gecko/2009040821 Firefox/3.0.9
NoScript 1.9.1.91

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I tested the direct link therube provided and it worked just fine, no glitches or anything.

[nagan]

Thanks for taking your time guys.. I just for once thought ,if I had gone wrong somewhere and tried the steps even today and had a crash.
Alan , clean "s" is present in the player and you have to leftclick allow the embedded shockwave object. Why you don't get a placeholder for that Real player object has been reasoned by Giorgio to be FF incompatiblity .

I have forbidden all plugs except FRAME/IFRAME and applied restrictions from trusted sites.

May I request once again, if you can to try out the steps as mentioned without exceeding the brief ( !) and post your results. Because in IE the same site plays well and am wondering if it is unique to me. Is FF RC 2 the clue?

[Alan Baxter]

Alan , clean "s" is present in the player and you have to leftclick allow the embedded shockwave object. Why you don't get a placeholder for that Real player object has been reasoned by Giorgio to be FF incompatiblity .

I don't have an incompatibility, nagan. The site works for me. You're the only one who seems to have a problem with it. Something in your configuration appears to be messed up, but you haven't given us enough information to help you fix it.

[nagan]

Here are the snapshots of the steps that I had listed.Even with FF 3.0.9 it is the same..

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The only difference I could recall from my modest memory was in 3.0.8 the object was listed as "Shockwave" ,but in 3.0.9 it is a "Real" object.

[therube]

Try a new Profile with nothing but Real & see if it crashes.
Again, but with JavaScript (manually) disabled. (I'd assume nothing would happen, i.e., the player wouldn't function.)
Re-enable JavaScript.
Install NoScript, all settings at default.
Try.
Allow raaga.com & try again. ...

[Alan Baxter]

Thank you for the screenshots, nagan. I followed in your steps again. This time I had to refresh the popup with F5 before it would play the citibank ad followed by the song. It still works fine for me. I agree with therube's troubleshooting suggestion.

BTW, I now know how to build my family in India their dream home thanks to the wonderful financial services of Citibank. And I can sing Jai Ho in Hindi in my sleep.

[nagan]

Try a new Profile with nothing but Real & see if it crashes.
Again, but with JavaScript (manually) disabled. (I'd assume nothing would happen, i.e., the player wouldn't function.)
Re-enable JavaScript.
Install NoScript, all settings at default.
Try.
Allow raaga.com & try again. ...

As I mentioned in the first post ,with a clean profile WITH NO ADDONS AT ALL , the moment I click on the song ,FF will crash (of course as per therube's advisory it is equivalent to the attempt after re-anabling JavaScript)

BTW, I now know how to build my family in India their dream home thanks to the wonderful financial services of Citibank. And I can sing Jai Ho in Hindi in my sleep.

Good Humour.WELCOME. We are the land where the human sciences (Yoga meditation & Spirituality) evolved. By the way Slumdog Millionaire picked up 8 Oscars and JaiHo got the best song Award. It has a newer version with Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls.

I will conclude that the crash is unique to me and it has been automatically reported back to FF quiet a few times by the error reporting mechanism of FF.Let me hope they work on that...

[Tom T.]

We are the land where the human sciences (Yoga meditation & Spirituality) evolved. By the way Slumdog Millionaire picked up 8 Oscars and JaiHo got the best song Award. It has a newer version with Nicole Scherzinger of Pussycat Dolls.

Personally, I like the food.