Adblock (plus) crashes my browser

rick752 · Post by **rick752** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:19 pm

I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.1 on Windows with Adblock Plus 0.6.1 with my own filters and everything works fine on that site. No ads... no crashes.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:47 am

I was having the same problem with gmail crashing. I don't think it is AdBlock, but due to CustomizeGoogle. I disabled the plugin and now everything works well. I still want to try to use customizegoogle for everything but gmail and see if that still crashes.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 6:53 am

Anonymous wrote:I was having the same problem with gmail crashing. I don't think it is AdBlock, but due to CustomizeGoogle. I disabled the plugin and now everything works well. I still want to try to use customizegoogle for everything but gmail and see if that still crashes.

I use CustomizeGoogle and the only thing I have it do to Gmail is force HTTPS, and there aren't consistent crashes on Gmail.

Wladimir Palant · Post by **Wladimir Palant** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:04 pm

I was finally able to track this down (many thanks to Sairam Sohil Nagulapalli). These crashes are caused by the plugin "Yahoo Application State" (npYState.dll), installed by Yahoo Messenger. Purpose of this plugin is unclear, I will request information from Yahoo (and send them info on the crash of course). Removing it definitely solves the problem (it is usually installed in C:\Program files\Yahoo!\Shared).

Update: I think that I know the function of this plugin now. It is supposed to tell Yahoo Mail which version of Yahoo Messenger you have installed. Yahoo Mail then could show you some special links for voice chat etc (it doesn't however because of a bug). Unfortunately it is impossible to work around this problem - I found out that the crash isn't triggered by anything Adblock Plus does, it is rather the very basic fact of adding a content policy. And it doesn't look like it is possible to disable plugins from extensions...

Update2: Got a template answer from Yahoo: "We know about this problem, we are working on it"

guest · Post by **guest** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:57 pm

Many thanks to Wladimir Palant for finding the cause of this problem

(There are lots of false theories and fixes for this problem on other message boards.)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:07 pm

thank you thank you thank you! Great job on finding the solution. you are a rock star!

garcia · Post by **garcia** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:17 pm

Yes Thank you Wladimir - you are a genius.

Any way I can help support adblock plus, just let me know.

WildcatRay · Post by **WildcatRay** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:59 pm

FYI: I reinstalled Yahoo Messenger and then deleted npYState.dll. Firefox with Adblock Plus and Yahoo Messenger have worked fine since.

DLWood · Post by **DLWood** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 3:06 am

When I deleted npYState.dll, everything seems to work fine except I can't "compose" in Yahoo Mail. The curser just won't go to the message window. It will in Safe Mode though.... ?? Anyone else experiencing this?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:23 am

Thank you Wladimir!! Sorry DLW, everything seems to be working great for me now with the deletion of that file.

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:15 am

DLWood wrote:When I deleted npYState.dll, everything seems to work fine except I can't "compose" in Yahoo Mail. The curser just won't go to the message window. It will in Safe Mode though.... ?? Anyone else experiencing this?

Unless you happen to go by Dan in the newsgroups, Dan in mozilla.support.firefox reports this problem, too.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:45 am

Peng wrote:
DLWood wrote:When I deleted npYState.dll, everything seems to work fine except I can't "compose" in Yahoo Mail. The curser just won't go to the message window. It will in Safe Mode though.... ?? Anyone else experiencing this?
Unless you happen to go by Dan in the newsgroups, Dan in mozilla.support.firefox reports this problem, too.

Yes, I'm one and the same Dan. I experimented around a little, disabling my FF extensions one at a time, and StumbleUpon caused the problem. After disabling and re-enabling the extension, everything works fine now. So cool to finally get Yahoo Mail working with FF with all extensions enabled!!

Peng · Post by **Peng** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:20 am

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I'm one and the same Dan. I experimented around a little, disabling my FF extensions one at a time, and StumbleUpon caused the problem. After disabling and re-enabling the extension, everything works fine now. So cool to finally get Yahoo Mail working with FF with all extensions enabled!!

Heh.

Interesting that StumbleUpon would do that, and then work perfectly after being disabled and reenabled. No idea why. It shouldn't interfere with that.

Actually, it does detect hightlighted text, maybe that's the culprit?

Edit: Maybe you should report that to the StumbleUpon folks?

rmarlais · Post by **rmarlais** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:18 am

I lost the ability to compose on Yahoo. The widow to write messages would not open. I deleted FF and reinstalled. That solved the problem two weeks ago.
Today it happened again. Deleting FF and reinstalling does not work today. I can however use internet explorer and have access to Yahoo Mail and compose with no problem.

ANYONE HAVE A SUGGESTION???

RMARLAIS

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 4:01 am

rmarlais wrote:I lost the ability to compose on Yahoo. The widow to write messages would not open. I deleted FF and reinstalled. That solved the problem two weeks ago.
Today it happened again. Deleting FF and reinstalling does not work today. I can however use internet explorer and have access to Yahoo Mail and compose with no problem.

ANYONE HAVE A SUGGESTION???

RMARLAIS

Before I found my above fix, I made a shortcut to Yahoo Mail in safe mode, and it worked perfectly w/o crashing. Target like so:

"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode http://mail.yahoo.com

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