From: tholen@antispam.ham   
      
   "Rich Walsh"  writes:   
      
   > My impression is that Firefox 4.0 GA is much less crash-prone than any   
   > of the betas.  So far, the only crashes reported have been in TCPIP32.DLL.   
   > While any crash is unfortunate, the number and variety of problems seem to   
   > be significantly reduced.  Is this the case or is it just wishful thinking?   
      
   Two issues worth mentioning:   
      
   1.  While using the pre-releases, I discovered that I could not log into   
       an on-line banking account.  The bank's technical support ultimately   
       got out of it by stating that they don't support betas.  Now that   
       Firefox 4 is no longer a beta, one of the first things I tried was   
       to log into that particular on-line banking account.  It still didn't   
       work.  Unfortunately, technical support has not been able to tell me   
       specifically what "Error 3400" means, so it's hard to tell the   
       developers where the problem might lie.  Earlier in the technical   
       support session, I was told that Flash was required (it's not), and   
       that Flash was needed to set cookies (also not true), so even if   
       someone had told me what Error 3400 means, I'm not sure I could have   
       trusted it.   
      
   2.  Playing WebM videos at youtube hasn't been a very good experience for   
       me.  I already mentioned how plugging in a USB memory key caused a   
       video that was playing smoothly to suddenly start hiccuping.  Well,   
       another "video" with a static picture started stuttering after I used   
       the volume control on my machine.  Another video started stuttering   
       after I launched a GUI app.  About the only thing I could do that   
       didn't affect playback was typing text in an already-open command   
       window.  In one case, I let the stuttering video continue playing to   
       see if it would ever recover on its own when I stopped using the   
       machine for other things, and it wound up crashing the whole machine   
       with a Trap D in the OS/2 kernel.  I'm guessing the crash was related   
       to something like DIVE and not Firefox specifically, but the stuttering   
       is a fairly common problem.  In one case, I was not using the machine   
       for anything else when stuttering started occurring.  With a 2.5 GHz   
       processor and 2 GB of memory, I expect that I have enough horsepower   
       with this machine to avoid stuttering youtube videos.  SNAP and a   
       Matrox G450.   
      
      
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