Firefox crashes on preview with Release 139

Steps to reproduce:

1. Paste url for Contruct 2 preview

2. Enter

Observed result:

Firefox shows me "Contruct 2 preview" in the tab title and immediately crashes.

Expected result:

Preview works perfectly fine in Chrome. This is my first time using preview in FF as I wanted to check CSS via Firebug. I don't know if this would have happened before today's release.

Browsers affected:

Chrome: no, version 28.0.1500.72 m

Firefox: yes, version 22.0

Internet Explorer: unknown

Operating system & service pack: Windows 7

Construct 2 version: Release 139 (64-bit)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Paste url for Contruct 2 preview

2. Enter

Observed result:

Firefox shows me "Contruct 2 preview" in the tab title and immediately crashes.

Expected result:

Preview works perfectly fine in Chrome. This is my first time using preview in FF as I wanted to check CSS via Firebug. I don't know if this would have happened before today's release.

Browsers affected:

Chrome: no, version 28.0.1500.72 m

Firefox: yes, version 22.0

Internet Explorer: unknown

Operating system & service pack: Windows 7

Construct 2 version: Release 139 (64-bit)

What do you mean by paste url? hit the test button,

Have you tried Firefox Nightly? Are your graphics card drivers up to date? It's not normally possible for a web page to crash a browser, so I think this is more likely a Firefox or driver issue than a Construct 2 bug.

— yes, I've tried normal FF and also Nightly. My graphic card drivers are also up to date.

— I have my default system browser as Chrome.

oh, and I can navigate to other pages on FF just fine.

— yes, I've tried normal FF and also Nightly. My graphic card drivers are also up to date.

— I have my default system browser as Chrome.

Right Im a bit confused lol

do you mean when you test your game straight from c2?

or showing your preview online?

click your project and manually choose firefox-

-as your browser

no worries :)

It happens both when I navigate to my LAN preview address or to my localhost address. I just upgraded to the Personal edition today and I noticed I didn't like the CSS so I wanted to look at it in Firebug.

From within C2, if I change my Preview Browser to FF, FF also crashes immediately when I click the Run Layout button in the top menu.

In fact, I wanted to make sure it had nothing to do with my project so I just tried it with both a completely empty .capx and with a .capx that only had 1 button and it crashed in FF all cases.

no worries :)

It happens both when I navigate to my LAN preview address or to my localhost address. I just upgraded to the Personal edition today and I noticed I didn't like the CSS so I wanted to look at it in Firebug.

From within C2, if I change my Preview Browser to FF, FF also crashes immediately when I click the Run Layout button in the top menu.

In fact, I wanted to make sure it had nothing to do with my project so I just tried it with both a completely empty .capx and with a .capx that only had 1 button and it crashed in FF all cases.

Ohh, remember if its a new install of firefox, then install flash & java (with plugins) for the browser

Ohh, remember if its a new install of firefox, then install flash & java (with plugins) for the browser

Shoot! I thought you might be right, so I updated my Flash & Java, got the confirmation page on java test site, restarted. And still no luck :(

Just for reference:

I've always used Firefox (currently 22.0) and do not have Flash or Java installed - they are not needed to run a preview from C2 - and it works fine for me with all C2 builds up to and including the latest stable build r139.

What operating system are you using? Does it crash Internet Explorer?

I would suggest that something on your system is blocking this from working.

Like zenox98, preview in firefox 22 works as intended for me.

Flash is installed/updated, but indeed not needed for C2.

Try to modify the project property to change the default browser from chrome to firefox, to see if it changes anything.

Closing as most likely not a Construct 2 bug.

— Yes, please close.

My apolgies for taking up your time. Yes indeed the problem was on my end. I removed a bunch of programs that were bloating my system, ran every update possible, and somewhere along the line something fixed it. Unfortunately, I don't know what exactly it was.

Thanks all for your input!