Finally! I’ve found a workaround to the crashing caused by QuickTime 7.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.9. I will do some more testing and release an update to SizzlingKeys tomorrow morning.

I still believe this is an Apple bug. As I pointed out in an earlier post, QuickTime 7.1.5 causes problems for many other apps. One of them is Apple’s own Safari. On my test machine running Mac OS X 10.3.9 with QuickTime 7.1.5, opening the following link in Safari causes it to crash:

http://yellowmug.com/TV.pict

That TV is for sale, by the way. Email me if you’re interested.

The issue caused by QuickTime 7.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.3.9 persists. The only workaround I have found to date is to downgrade QuickTime back to version 7.1.3. There is a thread on Apple’s discussion board that describes how to do this.

Although this procedure appears on Apple’s discussion board, it is not necessarily something Apple (or Yellow Mug!) endorses. So if you choose to downgrade, please back up your hard drive first and do so at your own risks.