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ashwin replied on July 19, 2008 13:30 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

It's been 2 days since I upgraded to FF 3.0.1 and using it alongside RT. There has not been a single crash. I guess that closes this problem.

Joe, I'm still curious though, if you guys figure out what fix in FF 3.0.1 solved your problem, do share us the technical details.

ashwin replied on July 11, 2008 00:00 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Sam, can't really say which. Just have a look at all the apps you have running when FF3 crashes.

ashwin replied on July 10, 2008 03:00 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Sandy, it could be another app which is probing Firefox in the same way that RT does. Close down all the apps that probe FF3 for any kind of information and then see if it still crashes.

ashwin replied on July 03, 2008 01:23 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Joe, I ran RT again and FF3 crashed within a few minutes. This is what I see in the RT debug tab:

2008-07-03 09:20:28
Error 2410: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

2008-07-03 09:20:28
Error 2410: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

2008-07-03 09:20:28
Error 2410: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

2008-07-03 09:20:28
Error 2410: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

2008-07-03 09:20:28
Error 2410: Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component.

(And lots more lines of this same debug message.)

BTW the debug tab doesn't seem to allow right-click copy.

ashwin replied on July 02, 2008 06:53 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Hi Joe,

The addons I use are:
Adblock Plus
Better GReader
CustomizeGoogle
Delicious Bookmarks
FireGestures
Flashblock
Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer
IE Tab

IAC I still believe that FF3 will crash even in safe mode easily. That was what made me suspect RT in the first place ;-)

I can't think of anything else that's unique about my setup. Do let me know if you need any other information.

ashwin replied on July 02, 2008 01:41 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Joe, FF3 crashed 5 times within 10 minutes of running the beta RT in the background. I'm sorry but looks like the problem is still there. I will have to turn off RT since it makes FF3 almost unusable.

I've uploaded the latest crash reports to the Mozilla website, but it takes a day or two for them to generate the report. I will post back the crash report URL once they're done. But, I'm guessing it shouldn't be too different from my earlier report.

It is very easy to reproduce the crash. It seems to happen "mostly" when I switch from or open or close a tab.

ashwin replied on July 02, 2008 01:13 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Hi Joe, I've installed the beta. I will post back here if I see any further FF3 crash with it. If you don't see any message here in 2-3 days, then I guess it's good :-)

ashwin replied on June 30, 2008 14:09 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Joe, thanks for looking into it. I want to use RescueTime, so you have one tester for the fix right here :-)

ashwin replied on June 30, 2008 02:12 to the problem "RescueTime crashes Firefox 3" in RescueTime:

Hi Joe,

Please find my crash report here:
http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report...

Regards,
~ash

ashwin reported a problem in RescueTime on June 26, 2008 08:12:

RescueTime crashes Firefox 3

I installed Firefox 3 recently the day it was released. It was very stable. I tried RescueTime for the first time a few days after that. I noticed that FF3 started to crash randomly all the time. It even crashed while running in safe mode. Not able to figure out what was causing this, I suspected RescueTime and turned it off. I noticed that FF3 works fine when RT is turned off. This could be a bug with RecueTime. Please have a look at this bug, since it means that I won't try RT until it's fixed.

I'm running FF3 and RescueTime on WinXP (with all recent Service Packs installed). I've noticed this crashing behaviour on both my work PC and laptop, both of which are running the same mix of software.