[Reloadevery] ReloadEvery eventually crashing FireFox?

[Karthik Balakrishnan]

With additional note... i have windows XP and firefox 1.0.6 currently... I 
have faced this problem in every version of firefox since 1.0.2

Karthik

On 8/8/05, Karthik Balakrishnan <bekarthik at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have faced a similar problem with reload... Just as Paul said, when the 
> reload every option is enabled for more than 20+ hours, the time count is 
> lost and the page just reloads without any time interval!!! Also, it happens 
> that the submenu of reload every option is not seen when i right click on 
> the window! 
> 
> Karthik
> 
> On 7/28/05, Paul Hands <phands at cadence.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has anyone else observed this behaviour?
> > 
> > I'm running FireFox 1.0.6, with ReloadEvery 0.6.1 on SuSE Linux 9.3 on 
> > an IBM Thinkpad..
> > 
> > I run ReloadEvery with a 30 second update period on a given web site - 
> > e.g. the SCOX message board at
> > 
> > http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=q&board=SCOX
> > 
> > Usually I run it in a tab, with the MSFT message baord in another, and 
> > both updating every 30seconds or every minute.
> > 
> > After quite a long time, (24 or more hours) apparently dependent on the 
> > update frequency, instead of the page refreshing as normal, it spawns a new 
> > window on the same page, but without the firefox icon at top left. Instead 
> > of the firefox icon, it has the standard X-Windows purple X icon. If I close 
> > that new window, all FireFox windows vanish, but it doesn't go into the 
> > automatic bug reporting/feedback stuff. The new window is still usable - if 
> > I click on an embedded hyperlink in it, it usually works, and the window 
> > goes back to normal (FireFox Icon, etc), but the problem usually recurs 
> > after a few minutes. Closing the new window always completely kills FireFox.
> > 
> > I've only seen it happen with ReloadEvery, but it could just be that 
> > that's because I would not normally manage that number of page reloads 
> > manually, and that FireFox itself is at fault, but I don't know how to find 
> > out.
> > 
> > Any clues? Should I bugzilla it against FireFox or ReloadEvery, or both?
> > 
> > Paul 
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