I ditched Firefox as well, only a few months ago. It was my browser of
choice, until some changes made it sluggish and memory hog. Chrome is much
better, and I only use Firefox when I need a browser to load a 32-bit
plugin like the Aspera Connect browser plugin.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Benjamin Hershleder Ben@ContactBen.com
[Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> John, I ditched Firefox years ago because I was fed-up with the problems,
> and was glad to switch to Chrome….
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> Cheers,
> Benjamin
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> <http://hershleder.com/avid-media-composer-book-by-benjamin-hershleder>
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> On Aug 9, 2016, at 4:00 PM, John Moore bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <
> Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I've been seeing Firefox crash on several different systems the past month
> or two. In some cases I have updated Firefox but still see the crashes
> happening. I don't usually witness the crashes but with Firefox running in
> the background on my edit systems I end up seeing the crash reporter when I
> bounce out of Avid. This has happened on my work MacPro 10.8.5 and
> 10.9.5, my laptop while at work a MBP running 10.6.8, and my home edit
> system MacPro 10.9.5. I'm also seeing sluggish behavior on multiple
> systems where I type and it takes a few seconds to type out on screen.
> Given it's on several systems I'm beginning to suspect something changed in
> Firefox or maybe some delay due to loading all the banner ads.
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> On my home system it crashed twice while I had a long We Transfer upload
> going. I decided to try Safari and it seemed to be stable and working for
> two hours before I left for work this morning.
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> Anybody seeing this type of behavior? I have on some of the systems
> updated Adobe flash player recently to see if that was a possible cause.
> It dawns on me that background services on Avid might be interacting with
> things but this is just a guess and I am seeing the crashes even without
> Avid running. Curious if anybody has heard anything along these lines.
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> John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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