What's up with FireFox lately?

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I pretty much use FireFox browser when I am doing development work. I use it for most of my testing to see if the mods and fixes I do display correctly. Lately, however I have observed that fluky things have started to happen with some frequency, like crashing on my test server without any indicators as to what the reason might be. It does come up with a restored set of browser sessions but its pretty weird, as are the numerous requests lately for it to update itself. In the meantime, I chase around trying to find a problem in the code and come to discover that the FireFox browser just needed to be updated? No good!

:(

I noticed that I was having a problem with the Ray components a week or so ago and it really took a lot of time to figure out what was happening because I had a similar problem that I worked on about a month ago and I never imagined or suspected that FireFox was the culprit until I decided to update the FlashPlayer on it simply because I ran out of other options and could find nothing in the code that would have caused this anomaly. The problem was that in the Ray Chat and Presense sessions, the background image disappeared. This causes a problem being able to see what is going on with your session and the icons for inviting another member were gone too!

:)

The only other time I actually saw this same behavior was with a mod_rewrite in .htaccess that incorrectly redirected the command to bring up the presense and chat session and basically lost the path to the Ray resources, so I thought I had some freaky stuff going on with a .htaccess file on my test server. Wrongamundo! I was doing some debugging with another server and it was functioning correctly with the SAME code so I started to suspect that I had some problem with a corrupted FlashPlayer and decided to update the test system that had the problem but before I did that, I ran a test with a v6 IE browser and surprise, surprise, no bad behavior there!

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I updated the FlashPlayer only on the FireFox browser and again, surprise, surprise, the problem was gone, hopefully never to return but with FireFox these days who knows?

So, if you are having problems with your Ray Chat components with the background and icons going away AND you are using FireFox, make that your first focus for debugging your problem. The easiest way is to try to get the same behavior with IE and if you get correct results there, update your FlashPlayer in the FireFox version you are running.

:cool:

Enjoy!

[MH Vishal]

Why would anyone else's installation of Firefox be slower just because your installation is ?

Edit > That's not how a web browser works. Firefox doesn't contact a Firefox server somewhere to function. It runs entirely on your computer and over your network connection.

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Never said that it did! The firefox caching system INTERNAL to firefox is a memory pig. If you have multiple sessions open and just leave them open, don't even need to do anything with them, eventually firefox will suck up enough of your LOCAL system ram to take your computer down. NOTHING to do with ANY EXTERNAL server firefox or otherwise.

You can test this out your self, open 10 sessions to different sites, doesn't matter which sites, let them run for some hours, the whole day, that is what I usually do, run the Task Manager so you can see the processes and what memory they are using, before too long you will see that firefox cache will start increasing steadily as it refreshes its cache. Usually around 250 megs things stop working like Photoshop because it doesn't have enough memory to process request.

Firefox is WELL AWARE of this problem and you can find it if you search the Mozilla site. They have had three complete version releases and haven't FIXED the problem yet.