firefox dilemma

[G.]

Twice now, after 5 yr. old plays Thomas the Tank Engine songs off of youtube, my FF gets hosed.

It will crash out, then when you go to start>program files (or FF icon) and click it, you get a couple of seconds of hourglass, then NOTHING. No errors, no warnings, no Firefox.

I re-downloaded it this Sunday and reinstalled it, but that lasted 2 days. I can run it in safe mode (now).

Any ideas? I'll run AdAware and Spybot, but this might be more virusy. Norton runs always.

Five yr. old has been watching TtTE vids for a few months now, on both computers. No issue on the other one.

Any ideas?

I need to clean this badboy anyway. Too much extra crap lingering on it...

Thanks!

[Stu]

what version?

[G.]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

But I just re-downloaded it Sunday, so it should be newest. Right?

But "check-for-updates" says that version 2.0.0.16 is available.

:confused:

[FTG]

Flash doesn't install properly. You can fix it by copying a file into a directory. Details here:

http://slatev.com/blog.html

Let me know if it works. I need to do it too.

[G.]

But why doesn't it affect the downstairs computer?

No required updates shown on this one.

[FTG]

Because software makers have an incentive to keep cranking out new versions, and little incentive to write quality code, so they don't bother testing in different environments. Probably you had some programs open when you installed flash upstairs. Did the solution work?

[Stu]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

But I just re-downloaded it Sunday, so it should be newest. Right?

But "check-for-updates" says that version 2.0.0.16 is available.

:confused:

version 3 is out, actually i think 3.1 or 3.0.1 is out now.

[Cam]

version 3 is out, actually i think 3.1 or 3.0.1 is out now.

Yep. Try FF3. Sounds more like a 'puter centric issue and not really an app issue.

[dando]

Sounds like a similar issue I posted in the FF 3.0 thread. Uninstall Flash and install the latest and greatest version of Flash. You should also upgrade to FF 3.

-Kevin

[G.]

Thanks guys. I'll let you know what happens. It might take a while to get to it.