Flex app causing weird browser crash
April 16th, 2008 by
Adrian
This afternoon I stumbled across Kaushik Datta‘s blog post ‘Toyota’s Model Selector in Flex‘ where he mentions a new Flex site for Toyota. So I thought I’d take a look.
Initially it looks very nice, but after a short play with the sliders my Firefox browser crashed and displayed a weird error message. It was not an error message I have ever seen before.
Windows XP, Firefox 2.0.0.13 Error Message: Illegal Operation in Plugin
I restarted Firefox and tried it again, but the same thing happened. It is 100% repeatable.
So then I thought I’d give it give it a whirl in Internet Explorer (IE 7.0.5730.11) and, bingo, another new error message.
Windows XP, IE Error Message
The version of the Flash Player I have installed is WIN 9,0,115,0 (Debug player).
You can check your player version here.
And then finally the whole browser would die.
Take a look at the site and see if it crashes your browser too!
It also crashed Opera 9.24 on my Windows XP machine.
NOTE: It doesn’t crash in Firefox or Safari on my MacBook.
Posted in Bug, Flex | 3 Comments »