Crash using webex, firefox and mouseover help text

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by lithe951, Oct 11, 2006.

  1. lithe951

    lithe951 Member

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    Found my second problem. I'm running 1848.2 which was the last released version. I'll update this evening to 1940 since that one is "official" now and see if this is fixed, but I doubt it since I've never seen anyone bring this one up.

    I was just training one of my users with a Webex session. So I'm running 10.4.7 with XP as the guest OS running in a window (although this happened fullscreen too). The Webex client was launched in IE and set to share Firefox 1.5.0.7. I know, two browsers, but it works well for the kind of demo I was doing.

    I'm demoing a web application and every single time I mouseover a field, label, text box, etc. that has a "help" text, if I hover long enough for the help text to appear I get the spinning pinwheel and network activity goes through the roof. If I click fast enough no problem, since the mouseover text didn't have time to appear.

    The worst of it happens when I mouseover a text input field. If I have previously entered a value into that field, Firefox is helpful and pops a list of my previously-typed choices - form help right? That throws Parallels into a complete fit, pinwheel, network and CPU maxed, and it's a full blown crash requiring a force-quit of Parallels. This happened twice during my demo, NOT a good thing! :)

    I'll update tonight and see if this is fixed in 1940.

    Mark
     
  2. lithe951

    lithe951 Member

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    FYI at build 1940 this is still a problem. Running Firefox 1.5.0.7 and Webex, mouseovers cause CPU to max for up to 30 seconds before coming back down, and if I allow the auto-fill form tool to display the drop-down list of choices, Parallels crashes completely and my only option is a force quit.

    Mark
     

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