Firefox go boom, repeatedly

[unixronin]

I just went through my webcomics folder, migrating every Keenspot comic I read to my webcomic "unplugger", which sucks down the page sans ads, spam and other crap and shows me just the comic itself.  Why?  Because Keen appears to have added some new evil to all their pages that consistently crashes Firefox 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 on Linux.  Not only is Keen the single point of failure for comics on the Web, but as far as Linux is concerned, they seem to be trying to effectively DOS themselves.

I've found that threadless.com also seems to reliably crash Firefox on Linux.

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[midiamin.livejournal.com]

Dig deeper. Firefox 1.0.4 on my gentoo laptop (2.6.11) doesn't appear to have any issues with these sites.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I was mostly not having problems with 1.0.4. Keen would occasionally crash it (presumably when certain specific ads got loaded). 1.0.5 seems much more vulnerable, and seems to be affected by almost all Keen pages.

Nothing else has changed. Same plugins, same extensions, same everything.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

(To be fair, this is a very old Linux install, in great need of being burned down and completely reinstalled from scratch with a current distribution. As it happens, Gentoo is what I was considering.)

[midiamin.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's different from "consistently crashes Firefox 1.0.4". FWIW, gentoo has not yet tagged 1.0.5 as stable for x86.

As an easy test, have you tried other sites with flash banners?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Sorry, por wording on my part.

Yes, I've found other sites that consistently cause crashes. And now that you mention the magic word flash .... hmmm..... when I recopied the plugins, I forgot to skip the flash plugin, which it seems has always been problematic on Linux. Not least, I think, because it tries to load Shockwave stuff when it shouldn't, and can't handle it.

Lemme blow that away a minute and try it again ...