OK WTF, now GFY is crashing IE for me too
 

GFY has been crashing Firefox for me for days now, but as of this morning, I am also getting crashes when viewing in IE.

so far from investigating, GFY is the only site to do this to my browser.

Not sure what the issue is, but damn its annoying, I havent been coming here much then I popped in and bam now it crashes my browsers everytime, and YES i upgraded Firefox lol

That's very odd. That doesn't happen to me in either browser.

i have to post really quick and usually after i post, after the post shows, gfy crashes

i have disabled all addons, reinstalled latest firefox etfc... same thing

(crashed while making this post)

Both my IE8 on my PC, IE7 on the Virtual PC and the Google Crome works fine

well i am very happy for you!

However, even after creating new firefox profile i still get crashes, I guess i will be coming here even less now lol

ill try google chrome

not for me

Maybe it's some bit of cached crud.

This current skin is SUPER "heavy" thats for sure. The background having animation is a real hog for instance. If it was static and standard image, it'd be normal I bet.

ps: try flash upgrade(?) browsers share the same flash right?

the animations in the background are definitely silly. IE was giving me all kinds of weird issues (the background image for reality gang flashing through pages as they load) just running gfy lol i normally do not use IE at all, just to check pages/html/designs

right now im on google chrome, fresh install didnt even have it on this machine until just now, lets see how long i can surf until it crashes lol

the header alone is more then 2MB grafx :1orglaugh

Yeah, it's tough to diagnose but it could be flash as it's rather hit and miss with flash ads... so you may be able to do a few things, reply and get a flash ad and poof... browser dies.

Since nobody else has mentioned or experienced this problem I'm guessing this is a local problem with you.:2 cents::2 cents:

No problems here...

nowhere did i point the finger at anyone/anything, simply throwing my hands in the air and asking "WTF" lol

hmmm ok lemme do more diagnosing, ive been very busy working on stuff and just ignored it since its ONLY gfy crashing lol, ive never had issues with Firefox before this

Complain about it to Ice... :1orglaugh

k i upgraded flash lets see if i can make a few posts wqithout ff crashing

nope crashed immediate after second post (i made in another thread)

It was happening to me a while back and it turned out that my flash plugin needed to be reinstalled.

this is very odd, considering I have multiple computers online running all kinds of old browsers, from IE6 and Firefox 3.0 etc and they surf fine.... someonthing must be conflicting on this machine, i did just clear the reader_s virus off but thats the only issues ive had on this machine , runs fine and i do my work on it.

i just tried that, no work :(

so far google chrome hasnt crashed

info on this page
Documents (1 file) 157 KB
Images (56 files) 2988 KB
Objects (2 files) 254 KB
Scripts (17 files) 221 KB
Style Sheets (2 files) 5 KB
Total 3625 KB

IE and FF working for me.

I recently reformated a laptop that was crashing.
It turned out that the hard drive was bad in some areas.
I reformatted a partition that excluded the bad area and the problem
appears to be solved.

what do you use to get that info?

Try adding noscript to your FF. Sounds like you have a bug of some sort though.

thanks, i added noscript addon and ff crashed as soon as it launched afterwards, cool thing google chrome imported all my bookmarks, been browsing fine and all my old bookmarks are here lol

ill figure it out i suppose...

yeah - that was what I was going to reply - block the flash ads as this sounds like the cause. I've been having problems in FF and Flash10 recently fwiw

surfing now on ff with noscript

nope, it crashed when i wasnt even browsing, just sitting here looking at something and browser j8ust crashed

Time to run a virus scan.

machine is clean, there are no popups, no processes running that are assocaited with any virus.

Ive dealt with enough virii over the years that I dont feel this has anything to do with that.

ive successfully cleaned reader_s and vundo off multiple machines including for others and this doesnt seem like a virus related issue to me. unless there is a virus that only crashes your browser if you come to gfy lol

I just thought of something, because something similar was happening to me a long time back, but I can't for the life of me remember what I did to fix.

However, one o the procedures which stirs som grey matter is something about favicon.ico - when you bookmark a page, if that page uses a favicon, the bookmark will always try to load that favicon to display in the bookmarks menu, continuously.

http://www.aignes.com/deadlink_history.htm

I used that to remove all dead links in my bookmarks (can't be sure it was that exact thing, but it did the trick to track down dead bookmarks.

Please try that route, as I can't remember anything else working, but I know that removed lots of dead bookmarks, and the next memory of the situation is I had no more crashing probs.

Sorry this is vague, but hey, I know I have have lots of disconnected neurons....but it may help

heh im willing to try anything, just installed that and doesnt show any dead links so dont think thats it ...

im going to uninstall all my browsrs next and reinstall lol

its a addon for firefox

http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/

best addon i have ever installed

are you using 3.5 FF? I had some similar issues with some other sites, not GFY, but that fixed the issues for me when I upgraded

yes i am using FF 3.5

ok now, weird. I havent crashed since doing this... went through bookmarks and deleted the "file not found" ones...

lemme make 10 posts, if i can make 10 posts without crashing that will be amazing, earlier it was crashing after every post...

here goes...


post 1

ive successfuly made a couple posts with no crash!

could it really have been dead bookmarks???

hmmm post #4 without crashing??

test test

damn it crashed after making that post :(

Same shit happening to me on my other PC. IE 8 and the latest FireFox.

Running fine here in FF 3 and IE 7 on Vista 64-bit

Maybe you should run another antivirus/spyware/shit scan. If you are experienced with it, you should know that you can't be *sure* that you're clean.

Which operating system are you using? Which antivirus software are you using?

I assume that you might want to try Advanced Windows Care and/or do full system scan with Kaspersky Internet Security

Problem might be unrelated to what I post, but still.. One of the steps that you need to isolate the problem :)

I understand, and as I said, after having to remove reader_s and vundo off machines in the past (as recent as last week) I have made it a habit to constantly run spyware programs like malware Bytes, Hicjack This, CCCleaner and other to not only keep spyware off machine but keep things like registry clean etc... when I say clean, its because I run clean up programs weekly. This is my work machine, so I keep it clean.

I run various things weekly. Hijackthis, malwarebytes, superantispyware, iobits windowscare etc... all they find is tracking cookies and clean the registry. I do that manually weekly.

I just ran iobits windowcare and all it found was tracking cookies and temp files from design work ive been doing etc..

this thread only proves there is no money in cheap banners

you must be using xp its probably the new IE exploit

I love Advanced windows care! I run it a few times a day and it keeps my machine running faster along with some of the addons included with it like smart ram

Opera rocks :thumbsup

FF user... no problems in here...