Comments on: Flash player crashes browser when closing window (possible fix)

by: Davy

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:10:32 +0000

PERFECT!
have been struggeling with this for like the past 3 weeks…
adding the textfields to a sprite did solve my problem of crashing the IDE, browser and flash player…

Thumbs up :p

by: Ross

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:22:09 +0000

Thanks for this, i’ve spent the last couple of days figuring out what was going on here.

In my case it was an externally loaded swf and i guess instead of closing the window it occured when unloading the external swf (this was part of my main navigation for a website). I didnt have to even refresh, just press the link repeatedly and eventually it would just crash firefox and the flash IDE!

What a strange bug and what a waste of my time…

(oh and we’re in sept ‘08, still not sorted ey….)

by: Oli

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:30:34 +0000

Thanks for that. You’re fix is working and stops flash to crash on exit.

by: Moose

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:55:18 +0000

After half a week of building and rebuilding, I also managed to narrow down. I was planning on either
1)skipping my nicely tweening textfield
2)skipping embedded text: not really an option
3)going back to as2
Hope everything is gonna be fine now.

Thank you guys, i thought i was the mad one!

by: Jay

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:16:35 +0000

I love you guys. I found this site after FINALLY narrowing this issue down to the masking of the text field. I just wrote a wrap around class that extends Sprite and get/sets all the text attributes for my field. I’m thinking about taking the time to create an example project that shows this consistent issue to Adobe and submitting a bug report. Has anything of this nature been done that you know of? Thanks again for the resourse!

by: Corey

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:40:32 +0000

It’s February of ‘08 now and I just came across the problem myself. Come on, Adobe! This thing drove me INSANE for 3 days when I hit a roadblock in an app I’m developing. By sheer luck I came across the post you mention, and figured I’d give it a try. I was out of ideas, anyways. And it worked!
And you’re right about the memory leak. Before removing the textfield masks, I had considered a leak and was tracking the total memory usage. While the garbage collector works as it should during runtime, the mem usage would slowly (and I mean slowly) creep up indefinitely. Once the masks were removed, however, this was no longer an issue. I wonder if the masks are never truly removed from the stage when its corresponding textfield is removed. It’d seem especially strange, since my textfields were inside a parent MC that was removed entirely.
Adobe’s got some ’splaining to do. >:( But I’ll be damned if I’m going back to AS2 and AVM1.

by: Tom Hvizdos

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:10:53 +0000

I am also experiencing similar issues. Whenever flash 9 is installed, any exit directly from a site that called the flash causes IE6 to crash. If I navigate away from an offending site, then exit, all is well.

I am using the tool from Adobe to uninstall flash, but the whole process is a pain. major.