Web page Crashes Firefox& I.E

[Mychael]

I'm trying to watch a TV show from one of our main TV stations.
However as soon as I click on the tab to "watch this show" Firefox would crash.
After a couple of goes I swapped to Internet Explorer and the same thing happened.

In XP however (after downloading Silverlight) the show downloaded and ran.

So why can the "old/outdated" software as some like to say be able to do something which the supposedly current O/S cannot.

It must be a windows 7 setting somewhere given that both FF & IE crash in the same way.

 

[TrainableMan]

Are you using the same version of browser on the XP build? Try the "no addons" version in W7. Try compatibility mode. Different antivirus?

 

[Mychael]

Same version of FF in both. Yes, different antivirus.. ESET on 7 and MSE on XP.
Strange though that both FF and i.e crash on this site under 7.

 

[Mychael]

Tried compatibility mode crashed out just the same What is the 'no addons'version. do you just mean the broswer with no addons installed or is it something different.

 

[TrainableMan]

Right, you pick the run browser IE (no addins) option & Firefox safe mode. And yes, if it is the antivirus blocking or having problems checking the site then it does make sense to me that FF & IE would have the same problem; what it does seem to say is that it isn't the browser.

 

[Core]

Are both OS using the same video drivers?

 

[Mychael]

Are both OS using the same video drivers?

Good question and the short answer is "I don't know".
It's on-board graphics and it all 'just worked' when I installed Win7 so never bothered.

Until this time not had issues. It's (almost) been the only consistent prgram crash I've had with Win 7 since I installed it. In fact up till now never had any browser crash under 7.

 

[TrainableMan]

Aren't you running W7 64 & XP 32 - so it's not very likely.

 

[Core]

I would install OEM drivers for the onboard graphics. The Windows ones tend to leave something to be desired.

Is this crash issue specific to a Silverlight-using site? Have you tried reinstalling Silverlight 4.0?

 

[Mychael]

Aren't you running W7 64 & XP 32 - so it's not very likely.

No, both 32bit versions.

 

[Mychael]

Is this crash issue specific to a Silverlight-using site? Have you tried reinstalling Silverlight 4.0?

I'll look into that, yes it needed silverlight to play. XP did not have Silverlight so I downloaded it, I would assume it's the latest version and it did not crash browsers in XP.

Win 7 already has Silverlight so I did not need to install it but perhaps not the latest version.

 

[Mychael]

Think the MoBo just turned up it's toes. Cannot even boot now.

 

[Core]

Think the MoBo just turned up it's toes. Cannot even boot now.

Well this certainly isn't the best of signs.