Browser Crashing

[JGiotta]

OS: Windows XP SP2
Firefox Version: 2.0.0.1
Firebug Version: 1.0

When ever I launch Firebug from either statusbar button or context
menu(s) the browser instantly crashes.

[ATom]

I was the same problem. I must turn of some of my other plugins ant
Firebug work now.

[John Giotta]

Can you tell what you had to turn off, maybe we can compare and get a
better understanding to the problem?

[Ante Vrli]

I had crashing Firefox 2.0.0.1 too, and then disabling other plugins
solved the problem (thanks, ATom, for the idea!). Then I narrowed it
down to one plugin -- it was SWF Catcher from Sothink that didn't work
with Firebug.

[Joe]

I looked into this problem today and I'm more than a little stunned by
what I found. Sothink is clearly to blame here. Not only does
Sothink SWF Catcher break Firebug, it also causes DOM Inspector to
crash.

The problem is that Sothink haphazardly included an XPCOM component
with their extension called "inspector.dll", which is normally
included with Firefox if you install the optional DOM Inspector. I
guess they didn't want to ask their users to install DOM Inspector, so
they just included its DLL. The DLL they include was compiled against
Firefox 1.5, and works fine under that browser, but it is not
compatible with Firefox 2.0. When Firebug or DOM Inspector attempt to
use the DLL's services they crash immediately.

I'm more than a little angry about this, because every day I have to
read complaints from new Firebug users dealing with this crash, and
most of them probably just uninstall Firebug before they realize that
one of their other extensions is doing something stupid. Please
everyone write to Sothink and ask them to either distribute a Firefox
2.0 compatible version of inspector.dll, or better yet, don't
distribute it at all to prevent this problem from occurring again when
Firefox 3.0 ships.

[John Giotta]

Nice, it just so happened I disabled the SWF Catcher as well and
solved the crash problem.

I'd agree with Joe, sort of reckless from what you described.