[INVALID] ABE crashes Firefox accessing Google Finance

[Tom T.]

Good that you've noticed that it's slower when that SWF plugin set to False.

As said, not until I tried a third stock quote during the same session. The first one -- your posted GOOG link -- stayed fast through numerous reloads.

That's the first step to reproduce the crash. Try toggling the tabs after the page is loaded and before the chart is loaded.

Did that. (I read the steps to reproduce... )

If you monitor the title of the tab, you should see the following sequence when your refresh it :
1. Loading...
2. The name of your stock displays
3. Loading... again. This is when the Flash object gets loaded <<<<< This is slower when that SWF setting is False.
4. The name of your stock displays again. This is when the page load is complete.

Toggle the tabs between 3 and 4 and you should get a crash.

Hadn't so far.

I don't know how busy are you guys, but I do have some time to spare every now and then. Have fun

Usually busy -- this is a volunteer position, and still need to make a living in the Real World, not so easy these days -- but an interesting issue may be worth some spare time, esp. if it can be multi-tasked (e g., while watching TV, etc. ) Not committing to it, but if I find anything else, will post back.

Anyway, at least we exculpated NS, and you got some info to help you.

Old joke: "Doctor, it hurts when I do ths."
Doctor: "Then don't do that."

So, don't toggle tabs rapidly until the swf finishes loading.

(yes, it's still a bug. Still suspect profile coruption -- did you try a new profile and/or uninstall/reinstall Flash plugin from fresh d/l?)

[beLIEve]

LOL, sure Tom. I'll avoid toggling the tabs. Nahhh, the fix was to set the SWF value to True. So I did that.

Can't remember when I set it to false, probably 1.5 years ago when I got this computer, or probably even before that (Can't remember if I copied prefs.js over from my previous computer or reconfigured it). Since I have NoScript, I don't need to bother about Flash from unwanted sites.

And yeah, I agree with you. Gotta earn a living and that's more important. Back then, I love volunteer works. Now I avoid them knowing that I can't commit up to the level that others expect. Unless the level of commitment is best-effort

Have a great weekend there folks.