IE/Firefox crashine while playing media wmv
 

Ok, not sure why, but lately whenever I go to view videos that are embedded in a website, mainly .wmv files. My browsers crash. I have reinstalled the browsers, reinsalled Media Player, reinstalled wmv codecs and it still happens. Crashes the browsers as soon as the file starts to auto play. Also there is a website for my mmo account that I can't view on either browser as well, but I can on other computers http://www.gnonline.net It just shows up as a white screen. In firefox it shows up with a quicktime plugin icon, even though i have the latest quicktime installed as well (reinstalled it while troubleshooting the video issue.) I think these problems are interelated/same problem. Any suggestions? BTW: It's kinda sad when something like this happens to your computer and you repair other peoples computers for a living. lol Just don't want to backup and reinstall everything as it would take me about 3 days off total to reinstall everything just from the sheer ammount of data to remigrate and reinstall. Haven't had to do that in a loooong while as I have been able to fix mostly everything manually without reformatting. Anyhelp please?

To (hopefully) help answer your question with a few others:

What OS are you running?

Did you install anything recently before the problems started? Anything that could reassign itself to be a default player for certain filetypes?

Have you scanned for viruses and spyware?

You might try and use system restore (assuming you're running winXP) and restore to a point before the problems started. It may be a long shot, but I've been saved by it on a few occasions - and never has it messed a system up worse than it was already.

firefox does the same thing to me now happens to a friend of mine too. hope someone can figure this one out.

Im using win xp on a fresh install with the newest firefox and all the codecs i should need. crashes out firefox every time i try to open a website with a movie imbeded on the site

How much RAM do you guys have? My mom's browsers kept crashing. I checked and it only had 256 mb of ram!!! If I had a PC, I'd never have anything less than a gig of RAM, even if it was just for light internet surfing.

i have 2gig of ram

Actually, I've got the same problem on my computer (WinXP Professional SP2, Firefox 1.5 or IE 6, 768MB RAM).

I've just been living with it for ... probably about a year now, maybe even longer. I've got no idea what causes it, it's a bit frustrating at times, but I just don't view wmv movies inside browsers anymore. Quicktime still works great, though.

xp pro sp1 latest firefox and ie, all updates, did extensive scan and removal of any and all spyware/viruses (main function of my day job too, so really damn good and efficient at it) 1 gig of ram. got the problem with gnonline fixed, just uninstalled quicktime. the other problem still happens, but get this, only in my profile, go on another profile and it runs them fine. now that's pissing me off, because now I know it has to be something simple. I have had this problem before, and have had friends that have had it too, but for the life of us we can't remember how to fix it.

have you tried updating to the latest version of DirectX...

yup even with the updates, directx 9.0c with updates as recent as 12/22/05. as i said, happens on mine, not on other profiles. even crashes in media player itself, but not media player classic. Thinking of just doing a soft install just because this is pissing me off so much.

This happens to me on my desktop. It seems whenever I am surfing myspace and someone has a video on their page. I have firefox also and can't figure it out. 1 gb of ram, all the updates run. i think it is something with shockwave after reading the errors. When I get home and find time to play with it I will.

Someone is bound to know how to fix this.. Its really starting to drive me nuts.

It's a bug, has nothing to do with the user's pc, there's practically more people complaining about this particular bug than those that aren't

has anyone tried or have any firefox extensions that block script and or flash?

I know on my machine I get a link something error when playing video unless I allow the site with NoScript.

I think it's something wrong with the codecs because in avi or mpg files it also changed the total length of the video but would still play, so it would say the files was 00:00:23, when the actual time was something like 00:38:41 probably could have fixed it with reinstalling all the codecs on my machine, but rather than do that, just did a soft install of xp pro, and it fixed it. Good thing too, because I used a copy of the cd slipstreamed with sp2 now and updated it at the same time, so 2 birds with 1 stone :) And FYI: to do a soft install, boot of the windows xp cd you installed your os with, press enter to continue, f8 if it asks you and R to repair the installation of xp. You need to follow normal install prompts, it will look like a fresh install, but trust me, if you did R for repair and not esc to not repair your fine. You also have to activate again. All your drivers will be there, but you still need to do windows updates again. Also Install any service packs you updated to as the version of xp cd you used will use it's files instead, so if you have no sp on it it will install no sp, sp1, sp2, ect. Just what's on the cd will load. And default settings of windows will change, files will not be deleted, not much changes, but it fixes all system files. Enough of my rambling I'm out.

did you install the netscape windows media player plugin for firefox? I was having this problem too, no video and browser would crash. just install the plugin linked here, and this should fix it.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...64/plugin.aspx

In my case, it's both IE and Firefox crashing - and only for one profile. So it's gotta be something in the profile/registry, not a simple plugin for FF.

nope still causing the crash...

found the problem!!!
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/kn...98&mode=simple

Unfortunately there is no way to fix it yet...
sorry i guess we have to wait

Damn... and here I was hoping we would find a solution. :(

still no solution?

*bump* any news yet?

My PC does this. I use Internet Explorer (no Firefox) and I crash all the time when playing movies in IE. I've noticed that it only does it when I either get an IM, open an IM, or get a new IM, however. IE will not crash unless some type of instant messaging occurs while a video is going. The issue is certainly not Firefox-only. :( It's been doing it ever since I formatted. I like how my crapped up installation worked fine with IE but now since I've formatted and got ALL of the updates it starts doing it.

I just reformatted and installed firefox again, SAME crash. goin Opera now.

Finally figured out the problem.

http://www.noscript.net/faq#qa3_4 #3.4

by allowing the site that the video is hosted on and going into the options menu and 'allowing java', you'll cease to have this error. atleast it fixed it for me.