Opera 7.11 win32 crashes at www.tomshardware.com
Cooper Blake
While I like Opera 7 and use it as my primary browser and email client in
Windows 2000, several times a day I will hit a website that crashes Opera,
sometimes consistently. Here's a site that currently crashes Opera every
time I go to it (7.11, running on Windows 2000 Professional):
www.tomshardware.com
Can anyone else duplicate this behavior? It loads most of the content
before crashing, at which point Windows says:
The instruction at "0x67fb2448" referenced memory at "0x67ff4000". The
memory could not be "written".
Click OK to terminate...
And then it generates another similar error with different addresses.
-Cooper
Mark V
> Hello,
>
> While I like Opera 7 and use it as my primary browser and email
> client in Windows 2000, several times a day I will hit a website
> that crashes Opera, sometimes consistently. Here's a site that
> currently crashes Opera every time I go to it (7.11, running on
> Windows 2000 Professional): www.tomshardware.com
>
> Can anyone else duplicate this behavior? It loads most of the
> content before crashing, at which point Windows says:
No crash here
Opera Win32 7.11-2887; W2K, SP3; Sun JRE 1.4.1_01
With or withour JS and with JAVA=Off. Normally I keep Flash disabled,
but turned it on to see and no crash with Flash ads either. The Flash
ads really slow things down though. Try 1) Disable Flash plugin, 2)
Disable Javascript and see if you can pin it down for your system.
PS Are you on build 2887 of Opera?
Heribert Slama
<a...@me.com> wrote:
>[......] Here's a site that currently crashes Opera every
>time I go to it (7.11, running on Windows 2000 Professional):
>www.tomshardware.com
No problems here with this page. Windows 2000 Prof. Service Pack 2,
Opera 7.11, build _2887_ (may be yours is still 2880?).
Best regards,
-Heribert
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Heribert Slama
Muttenz, Switzerland
Opera 7.11 (build 2887), Windows 2000 Pro (SP2), Sun JRE 1.4.1
Cooper Blake
version #. I just updated to build 2887 (was 2880), and now it works. I
will try disabling the Flash plugin (do you just remove the file
association?) to see if that improves my reliability. I mean doesn't it
sound abnormal to crash several times in a day?
Thanks for the help.
-Cooper
Mark V
> Ahh.. I didn't realize they changed the Opera build without
> changing the version #. I just updated to build 2887 (was 2880),
> and now it works. I will try disabling the Flash plugin (do you
> just remove the file association?) to see if that improves my
> reliability. I mean doesn't it sound abnormal to crash several
> times in a day?
3 ways to neuter the Flash:
1) Remove/rename the plugin file (usually NPSWF32.dll)
2) Opera F12 Quick Prefs: Uncheck "Enable plug-ins" (all plugins).
This one is dynamic and can be toggled while Opera is running.
3) Add the Flash plugin to the plugin-ignore.ini file in the
installation directory. This only is effective before starting
Opera. And I've no idea why this file is not in the "profile"
location...
> Thanks for the help.
>
> -Cooper
>
>
> On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:58:51 +0200, Heribert Slama
> <sla...@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 12:45:18 -0400, in opera.tech, Cooper Blake
>> <a...@me.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [......] Here's a site that currently crashes Opera every time I
>>> go to it (7.11, running on Windows 2000 Professional):
>>> www.tomshardware.com
>>
>> No problems here with this page. Windows 2000 Prof. Service Pack
>> 2, Opera 7.11, build _2887_ (may be yours is still 2880?).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -Heribert
>>
>
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(Opera Win32 7.11-2887; W2K, SP3; Sun JRE 1.4.1_01)