ESPN.com crashes firefox

bash91 · Post by **bash91** » February 26th, 2005, 8:58 am

I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 on an XP system with SP2 installed and I am suddenly, as in it started last night, experiencing a crash every time I go to ESPN.com. This is the only site at which this seems to happen and it doesn't appear to matter if I go there first or after I've been online for a while. Either way, as soon as the page is mostly loaded, I get an error message and Firefox crashes. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Tim

egm · Post by **egm** » February 26th, 2005, 9:00 am

I'm experiencing the same thing this morning. Causes a crash 100% of the time.

Any ideas?

Mini-Geek · Post by **Mini-Geek** » February 26th, 2005, 9:00 am

WFM (Works For Me)

egm · Post by **egm** » February 26th, 2005, 9:02 am

Incidentally, I should say that I'm running Firefox 1.0.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1)

Mini-Geek · Post by **Mini-Geek** » February 26th, 2005, 9:04 am

I'm running 1.0.1 too as you can see in my sig, the complete UA string (which is the same as yours) is in the "Complete Firefox Info" link in my sig

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 26th, 2005, 9:33 am

it crash for me to, the first 2 times but is fine now

Longhorn30 · Post by **Longhorn30** » February 26th, 2005, 9:33 am

The same thing started happening to me this morning.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 26th, 2005, 9:36 am

espn has been known in the past to "break" Fx. Try again later.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 26th, 2005, 9:40 am

happens to me too, all the time.

Jinu · Post by **Jinu** » February 26th, 2005, 10:09 am

It seems to only happen when I use my scroll wheel to browse.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 26th, 2005, 10:12 am

Mini-Geek wrote:WFM (Works For Me)

Thanks for explaining the "WFM". I've seen that before in here and had no idea what the heck it meant.

Yes, espn.com works for me also.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 26th, 2005, 10:39 am

I too was getting the crashes this morning. I had Flashblock installed and ESPN was in my ignore list to autoload the flash content on their page since they use it for everything. I took them out of my allow list and ESPN is now loading just fine so it must be one of the flash objects on their frontpage causing the problem. My .02...

TrueNorth · Post by **TrueNorth** » February 26th, 2005, 10:46 am

I just tried ESPN and it works correctly for me. I'm running 1.0 and windows98. Something I have found tho, is that Firefox is a bit fussy about video drivers. I had a couple sites crash and could repeat that everytime until I updated my ATI video drivers. Maybe make sure your drivers are the lastest available.

Frick · Post by **Frick** » February 26th, 2005, 11:06 am

dog gamn espn is loaded with popups that probaly why it's crashing.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » February 26th, 2005, 11:07 am

loaded fine for me..