Fireworks CS3 OS X constant crashes with complex files

I recently purchased CS3 and started using Fireworks CS3
instead of Photoshop for web development. Absolutely love it. I
started having crashes, mainly on opening complex files created in
Fireworks CS3. A couple weeks ago I formatted my entire system,
starting completely from scratch, only installing the applications
and fonts that I absolutely needed. Nevertheless, I continue to get
Fireworks crashes, which appear by the logs to be related to a
memory leak in Fireworks.
If Fireworks only crashed itself, the issue would be bad
enough. But it brings down several other apps with it. The apps are
different each time. Sometimes it crashes Mail and Dashboard
Calendar, sometimes it crashes Firefox and iCal. Rarely does it
crash only itself. And rarely does it crash all programs. It's
usually a random selection of apps.
All other CS3 apps have worked beautifully. All other apps on
the box work great. And the log is filled with stuff like:
quote:
Adobe Fireworks CS3(299,0xa000cfc0) malloc: *** Deallocation
of a pointer not malloced: 0xfcc2a8; This could be a double free(),
or free() called with the middle of an allocated block; Try setting
environment variable MallocHelp to see tools to help debug
Jun 1 11:01:02 brian-morykons-computer
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support /ATSServer:
FOExceptionMainHandler caught a fatal exception at 0x000ddb9f\n
Jun 1 11:01:02 brian-morykons-computer
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/ATS.framework/Support /ATSServer:
ATSServer got a fatal exception! Please check /var/log/ats.log,
also viewable in Console.app
So it's definitely a Fireworks issue. And it's too bad. I
love Fireworks for Web Development. Any updates or suggestions
would be appreaciated.
My system: MacBook 2ghz Core Duo, 2gb ram, 100gb hard drive,
Mac OS 10.4.9
Thanks,
Brian

Heaven forbid, Linda! How dare a Fireworks user talk about
his problem with yet another buggy Macrodobe product. The nerve!
Telling him to contact your support is like telling him to contact
the man in the moon because you've run out of cheese.
Brian, I share your frustration. Fireworks has become
completely unstable for me with large or complex files on my Mac.
It works much better on my PC though. It has been my experience
that almost all releases of Macrodobe software works this way on a
mac until late in its product cycle.
This, sadly, seems to be the way Macrodobe works though. :(
This is a user to user forum, Brian. There's not much we can
do about
such issues here. Your best bet would be to contact Adobe
Customer Service.
http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/fireworks/?tab:contact=1
Linda Rathgeber [PVII] *Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks*
http://www.projectseven.com
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