MOZILLA Gurus - Browser closes - " invalid page fault" ? - - - Help ?

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Doesn't disconnect, just the illegal operation thing, and in "details"

This is what I get:

MOZILLA caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:02fc8be5.
Registers:
EAX=b2f7c684 CS=0167 EIP=02fc8be5 EFLGS=00010286
EBX=02f7c690 SS=016f ESP=004c0000 EBP=02f7c6b0
ECX=02f7c298 DS=016f ESI=00000000 FS=3da7
EDX=02f7c290 ES=016f EDI=6d4603f8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
cb 9a 01 80 d2 af 02 81 da 05 01 0c 23 a2 02 01
Stack dump:

YUP -

I did the Google thing, nothing comes up with the "02fc8be5"
I kept "whittling" the search down, and ended up doing a search

Mozilla invalid page fault -

no luck - lots of links, but nothing relevant that I could see -

that " <unknown> " doesn't help much

any ideas ?

re-install?

if so - will it keep my bookmarks?

:shrug:

to the latest version? might help.

do a search for bookmarks.html on your computer, then copy it to your desktop just in case before upgrading or reinstalling.

luck!

Older versions of Mozilla were somewhat flaky.

As for an invalid page faults, that happens when the program tells the operating system to retrieve data from an area of memory that is being used by another program or the operating system itself.

It happens every now and then, but it shouldn't happen often, and there should be a pattern to it (ie everytime you load a flash page, Mozilla crashes). If there is no real pattern to it and Mozilla is not the only program doing this, you may have bad RAM.

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I don't see any updates OR "issues" on their website that relates to what's happening,

Just started today, well yesterday!

Closed itself 3 times so far -

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which is currently running, likely in the background, and is using the same memory space.

If you didn't voluntarily install anything, but have visited unfamiliar web pages, one of them may have installed something nefarious. Go to www.lavasoftusa.com and download AdAware. This may help fix the problem.

If the problem continues, simply reinstall the browser in the same location. This should refresh all the original files while keeping your bookmarks safe.

Good luck!

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with them, but last few checks have all come up clean.

Also run AVG 6.0 - updated weekly

All checks last week came up clean

Another poster mentioned BugZilla, but heck, that page looks about as simple as compounded tax forms!

I might try the BugZilla thing some time FIRST thing in the morning, not now though, 3:40 am here!

I'm running a Dell GXi Pentium1-233MMX Win98SE - 128 meg Ram

Other Browsers include FireFox, IE6.0, Avant and CrazyBrowser (which both are basically skins on top of IE) and Netscape 4.8 which I rarely use.

02fc8be5 is a memory location that the computer tried to access and failed. A page fault is the result of trying to access memory outside of the memory management unit (MMU) page boundaries. Since programs are relocatable when loaded, it is unlikely that you will find the address in the internet. You could try reporting the error at the Bugzilla web site.

I get these all the time, sometimes with the Blue Screen of Death, sometimes just an error box. Just about every program I have has done this at least once.

Opera did it a lot for a while, but not for the past couple of weeks. Fortunately, the latest version of Opera backs up the bookmark file. Used to be corrupted when it crashed, and I manually copied it somewhere else every so often.

When Eudora crashes, the mailboxes get screwed up, but Eudora rebuilds them. Other things aren't as critical, but I do autosave WordPerfect and other data files and graphic I may be working on VERY often.

Have I mentioned lately that I hate Windoze?

windows ME??? Seems like you are getting an unusually high amount of BSOD's. If you are then maybe you should move to an NT-based windows solution (2K, XP)

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No other programs close, doesn't disconnect, just closes the browser.

I just open up the browser again and carry on

OH -

I actually had THIS for my desktop wallpaper for awhile !

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but it's a Compaq distro, and I haven't replaced all of the nasty Compaq crap yet. Probably never will, but it's better than it used to be. I've got a little problem upgrading with all the software installs and strange hardware I have on this thing. When the Compaq died, I just moved the hard drive and some hardware to another machine to avoid a month of reconfiguring. It now crashes less than it did when it was a Compaq.

My other 98SE machine has a vanilla version and doesn't crash nearly as much.

There's a plan here, but it involves a Mac and a Linux box-- someday.

machine does not automattically mean the hardware is total crap. The problem usually is, with most large manufacturers, is they install loads of bloatware on your machine. After awhile of using it, software you have put on your machine, plus stuff that was put on without your knowledge, love to conflict with each other. What I would recommend is a total reformat of your machine. That will give a clean slate to start back up on. It's not very difficult but it is time consuming. Probably on the range of 3-6 hours, so a weekend afternoon should be set aside. You need to be prepared before you venture down that road but if you do it right and have everything you need, you will have a computer that will run very well and you will know exactly what is on your computer. And if you install win2k (if your computer only runs 98 then I would not put XP on there) you should be almost garaunteed to never see a BSOD again.

was crap. The biggest problem is the Compaq OEM version of Windoze. It is very definitely not the same as the clean one I got from M$.

All manufacturers play with the OS and have their little quirks. Compaq's seems to be one of the odder ones, and I've noticed they have several versions. Mine seems to be one of the worst, but I'm not about to compare every DLL for dates or version numbers. I thought about running the M$ disk and seeing what would happen, but there's Murphy's Law... There's also the possibility of an XP upgrade cleaning everything up. <gasp>

Now, the Compaq hard drive is sitting in an older HP box until I get around to a motherboard swap. I'd love to just start clean, but I've got too much registered software where I lost the passwords and keys, and too many other configuration hassles to reinstall everything. It took a few days just to get everything working with the HP.

If I were absolutely, positively, sure WordPerfect 10 and PCAnywhere worked with emulators on a Mac or Linux box, I would have dumped Windoze a long time ago. (The other Windoze stuff I have I could probably live without. Scanners, the Palm, printers, cameras... all should work with a Mac.)

The plan is to use one Windoze box for them, and something else for everything else, but that's some time away. Like when I see a real income again.

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Mozilla(1.6) has been operating flawlesly ever since I installed it a couple of months ago,

Hmm _ I just checked, I installed Mozilla 1.6 1/20/2004 - exactly 2 months ago..

Maybe it was just celebrating it's "anniversary"

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