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   Re: FF4 GA - Is It Stable For You?   
   22 May 11 02:21:49   
   
   From: tholen@antispam.ham   
      
   Dave Yeo  writes:   
      
   >> "Rich Walsh"  wrote:   
      
   >>>>>>  Just had a crash in XUL.DLL.  It was the kind of crash that used a   
   >>>>>>  full-screen window to report the crash.  Naturally, I wasn't home   
   >>>>>>  at the time the crash occurred, so the crash ended the energy-saving   
   >>>>>>  standby mode for my dual-head monitors, allowing the static text to   
   >>>>>>  burn in for possibly several hours.   
      
   >>>>  Full screen, like a kernel panic?   
      
   >> Full screen, yes, but after dismissing the dialog, the system returned   
   >> to the Desktop, and I was able to relaunch Firefox and continue,   
   >> whereas the kernel panics I've seen bring down the entire system,   
   >> forcing a reboot.  Also unlike a kernel panic in that the crash   
   >> had box-drawing characters around the two parts of the screen.  The   
   >> lower part had the usual three choices of dismissing the message,   
   >> seeing more detailed information, or showing just the message.   
      
   > This sounds like you had a full screen session with focus when the crash    
   > happened. What are you using to put the monitors too sleep?   
      
   It's called "Blackout".  From the first few lines of the readme file:   
      
   ======================================================================   
   This file is part of the Blackout screen saver.       v1.00 1996-06-29   
   Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 by Staffan Ulfberg.                             
   ======================================================================   
      
   So, 15 years old, but works fine.  Blackout certainly puts the monitors   
   to sleep.  Whether it uses a full screen session to do so, I don't know.   
   I do know that I otherwise had no full screen sessions with focus going.   
      
   > Also is there anything in popup.log?   
      
   Didn't even think to look, but indeed there is (in popuplog.os2, that   
   is).  Nice call.   
      
   05-19-2011  23:08:57  SYS3175  PID 0062  TID 0001  Slot 0089     
   U:\FIREFOX\FIREFOX.EXE                                           
   c0000005                                                         
   1482bb93                                                         
   P1=00000001  P2=0000000d  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX               
   EAX=4205bec0  EBX=fc37fb5e  ECX=16600ba0  EDX=165cdbf0           
   ESI=4205bec0  EDI=4205bed4                                       
   DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff                              
   ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff                              
   FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030                              
   GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********                              
   CS:EIP=005b:149ac702  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff                 
   SS:ESP=0053:0012fd98  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff                 
   EBP=0012fdb0  FLG=00212282                                       
                                                                    
   XUL.DLL 0001:0041bb93                                            
      
      
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