live8 aol site crashes firefox

[fordp]

The above site crashes my backports 1.04 firefox in Hoary.

I have an Nforce2 IGP based system and I am running the Hoary NVidia Binary GFX Driver.

I have had to boot into Windows to view the site.

Can anybody view the Live8 AOL Pages ?

[ShaneAu]

The above site crashes my backports 1.04 firefox in Hoary.

I have an Nforce2 IGP based system and I am running the Hoary NVidia Binary GFX Driver.

I have had to boot into Windows to view the site.

Can anybody view the Live8 AOL Pages ?
live8live.com?

[fordp]

http://music.channel.aol.com/live_8_concert/home
Is the link that crashes firefox.

[twermund]

it seems to load just fine on my computer....

[crashtest]

Doesn't crash my firefox, but as usual I cannot get the mplayerplug-in to work. Everything is working properly using Mozilla 1.7.8

[crashtest]

OK, so this really sucks! Mozilla starting crashing a few minutes after I wrote the above post. What the hell I thought, lets try the Mac. Right, Mac OS X 10.4.1 Tiger, friggin renowned for multimedia... Safari browser won't play the Live8 feed properly either - I get multiple feeds at the same time, and no way to get only one at a time.

Next I fired up Windows XP on my dual-boot notebook. Went to the music.aol.com site with Firefox which promptly locked up and refused to respond.

Finally I tried Internet Explorer which works on this site flawlessly. This has gotta be AOL putting out content that only works on IE, right? Bastards.

[GrammatonCleric]

If anyone wants to listen to the concert fire up beep-media-player, xmms, or mplayer...whatever...and point it to...

http://oggtrial.nm.cbc.ca:80/cbcr1-toronto.ogg

it's working for me.

GC

[Fluffy, the jolly sheep]

Bill Gates made a surprise appearance at Live8 in London. This explains a lot :-)

Firefox probably deliberately crashed to prevent traumatizing it's users! Squash Bill Gates... he's the bug!