FireFox Update Crashed My iMac...

[synapco]

At least I think it is attributed to FF Update 2.0.0.4. I first updated FF on my iMac - no problems. I then started Fusion (beta 3) - waited until everything had loaded and my Panda Virus program to update, then went to FF to begin the update. The first thing I noticed was I had to manually click to start the update even though FF indicated the download was in process. The download started immediately and completed with no problem. Once FF restarted a pop-up window noted that add-ons were being updated. I don't use any add-ons so I clicked the cancel button. FF's home window opened to Yahoo, but nothing displayed in the window. I tried several other sites, with the same problem. I opened MS Browser - no problem, everything worked. Back to FF - closed and re-opened a couple three times - still nothing would show in the window though the notation at the bottom said the window was loaded. Closed the program and hit the "suspend" botton. That is when everything came crashing down and I got Apple's message to restart.

Did anyone else have this problem? Also, after restarting my system, everything was back to normal.

[admin]

I assume you mean FF in the guest, not FF on the host. By "Apple's message to restart", do you mean a kernel panic[/url]? If so, what's the contents of panic.log (located at /Library/Logs/panic.log)?

[synapco]

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I have FF in both - the host and the guest (VMware). Yes the Apple message that "You need to restart you computer. Hold down the Power button..." in several languages what I am referring to. And it could be deemed to represent a kernel panic. The only devices I have connected to the iMac are: (a) Kensigton 7 port USB hub and (b) Logitech's cordless S530 desktop keyboard and mouse (c) Airport Extreme and (d) an Apple USB modem.

Panic log contents is:

Fri Jun 1 14:47:50 2007

panic(cpu 1 caller 0x5036A0BB): vmmon: ASSERT bora/modules/vmmon/macos/pageHiddenMap.cpp:754

Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)

0x25683a18 : 0x128d08 (0x3cb134 0x25683a3c 0x131de5 0x0)

0x25683a58 : 0x5036a0bb (0x50375538 0x50375518 0x25683a80 0x25683a80)

0x25683b98 : 0x5036a0dc (0x4e20 0xf4240 0x25683bb8 0x5036a4e3)

0x25683bb8 : 0x5036dcba (0x50375578 0x50375db4 0x2f2 0x0)

0x25683c08 : 0x5036cb81 (0x2060a 0x2060a 0x4 0x516be018)

0x25683c38 : 0x5036cc7c (0x6cc3004 0x2060a 0x0 0x5036a433)

0x25683c88 : 0x5036e52f (0x6cc3004 0x0 0x41581e0 0x58ec254)

0x25683ca8 : 0x5036f1cf (0x41581e0 0x1 0x300 0x6)

0x25683cf8 : 0x5036a24b (0x6cc3004 0x0 0x48 0x1)

0x25683d18 : 0x5036aa35 (0x16 0x15 0x3c65c10 0x0)

0x25683d68 : 0x1f05d7 (0xa000000 0x20005602 0x25683eb8 0x3)

0x25683da8 : 0x1e7411 (0x25683dd0 0x297 0x25683e08 0x4cd2000)

0x25683e08 : 0x1df212 (0x5196ef4 0x20005602 0x25683eb8 0x3)

0x25683e58 : 0x331c4c (0x60b6c60 0x20005602 0x25683eb8 0x4cd2000)

0x25683e88 : 0x34ffa8 (0x60b6c60 0x20005602 0x25683eb8 0x4cd2000)

0x25683f58 : 0x379e23 (0x4cd2000 0x45c15f8 0x45c163c 0x0) Backtrace continues...

Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):

com.vmware.kext.vmmon(1.0.0d1)@0x50369000

Kernel version:

Darwin Kernel Version 8.9.1: Thu Feb 22 20:55:00 PST 2007; root:xnu-792.18.15~1/RELEASE_I386

Anything else you would like me to try just let me know. Thanks.