Want To Crash Firefox 3? Here’s how.
Posted by Keith Elder | Posted in Internet | Posted on 24-06-2008
14
UPDATE: Having some friends test these sites on their Mac with OSX, FF3 doesn’t crash on a Mac. Good to know.
UPDATE: The problem has been officially fixed! Installing Siliverlight Beta 2 did the trick. Thanks to Jon Galloway.
I have been enjoying Firefox 3 since it was released until I noticed visiting certain web sites would crash Firefox. I thought it was just me but then started going back to the same links and Firefox would crash again. And when I mean crash, I mean shut the entire application down. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.00.
There are two sites I have found that will crash Firefox 3 every time.
1. MSDN Library
Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com and at the top of the page click on the Library as show here. When you do. Good bye Firefox 3!
2. Go Daddy
The second site is visit http://www.godaddy.com and click the “My Account” link as shown here. When you do, good bye Firefox 3.
These are the two I’ve found so far. I seriously don’t understand what they are doing to cause this. It works in IE! (haha) I’m sure it has to do with JavaScript.
Anyway, if you are using FF3, stay away from these two sites until either FF3 fixes what they are doing or these webmasters figure it out and fix it. If you find other sites crashing, add it to the comments below and I’ll keep updating the screen shots. This could turn into a fun exercise to see how many sites are actually broken. By the way, the OS I’m running to get these results is Vista with SP1. If someone has a Mac handy, I would like to know if this happens to you as well on these sites.
Deep Fried Bytes
