# Firefox and ABCNews.com suddenly incompatible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 27, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876 "2005-01-27T04:52:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/1 "2005-01-27T04:52:26Z")
For the last several days I have been unable to load [ABC News’ home page](http://abcnews.go.com/) with Firefox 1.0 without it crashing. This is one of the first major sites I’ve found to consistantly do this. Does this happen for everyone else? Anyone know what they added that’s causing it? ---
**Author:** ![Spree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Spree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spree)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/2 "2005-01-27T04:58:06Z")
I’m running Firefox 1.0 and I just followed your link and browsed around the site a little bit. It seems to be working fine on my end. What exactly is it doing? (Note I just recently downloaded Firefox, so maybe there are some bugs that have been fixed in my version?) ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/3 "2005-01-27T05:00:22Z")
Mine isn’t crashing. Perhaps it’s because I’m using the Flashblock extension, and their headlines are flash objects now (for some stupid reason) -lv ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/4 "2005-01-27T05:05:55Z")
After it loads I always get the **‘firefox.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows’** dialog box. I haven’t had any problems with Flash banners on other sites. Just tried it on a different PC, same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Binky\_Rudich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Binky\_Rudich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binky_Rudich)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/5 "2005-01-27T05:16:20Z")
works fine for me (Firefox 1.0 on Mac Os X) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/6 "2005-01-27T05:26:27Z")
No problem here - Firefox 1.0, no Flashblock, WinXP. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/7 "2005-01-27T05:42:47Z")
No prob here; I’m using FF 1.0 (“Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0”) on XP SP1, but I also have the AdBlock extension. My popup blocker is enabled. Perhaps some adware in a popup is crashing it? ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/8 "2005-01-27T05:49:42Z")
Hmm, it crashed FireFox on my office computer, but that computer’s been a bit flakey lately. It doesn’t crash Firefox on my home PC but the words “Transferring data from [abcnews.go.com](http://abcnews.go.com)…” won’t disappear from the status bar. Strange. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/9 "2005-01-27T05:59:22Z")
I have Firefox 1.0, with no extensions installed. The website crashed mine. All my tabs went down the tubes. You are not alone. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/10 "2005-01-27T09:17:20Z")
I too have the AdBlock extension running. No popup stopper (other than FF’s built in one). Both PCs are work PCs, older Compaq Deskpros w/Windows 2000. All the other news sites still work, CBS, Fox, MSNBC, CNN. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/11 "2005-01-27T09:23:33Z")
I have Firefox 1.0 and haven’t added anything to it. My machine is a Dell Dimension 4100 w/Windows 2K. The link worked okay just now. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/12 "2005-01-27T10:36:23Z")
Firefox 1.0, no problems with that link. Try uninstalling/re-installing Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![SavageNarce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@SavageNarce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SavageNarce)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/13 "2005-01-27T12:35:11Z")
No problems for Firefox 1 on Win2000, but I **am** getting a “Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window” message. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/14 "2005-01-27T13:22:01Z")
How well does Firefox work with [foxnews.com](http://foxnews.com)? Maybe it was programmed by Republicans! ---
**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-and-abcnews-com-suddenly-incompatible/286876/15 "2005-01-27T14:37:18Z")
I tried the link last night on a WindowsXP SP2 box with Firefox 1.0 and received the error message and crash you described. Today, at work, on a Windows 2000 box with Firefox 1.0, no crash.