OT: Fire Fox Crashing

Atrocities · #1 January 8th, 2007, 11:41 PM

Has any one else noticed lately that Fire Fox has been excessively crashing?

I am running v1.5.0.9 and lately, since the last update, I have noticed that FF seems to be crashing for more frequently than with previous versions.

I am considering installing FF 2.0 - any feed back on this one?

Spectarofdeath · #2 January 8th, 2007, 11:48 PM

I haven't had it crash very often. On the contrary, every time I open internet exploder it crashes when I try to close it. Very confusing.

President_Elect_Shang · #3 January 9th, 2007, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Spectarofdeath said:
...internet exploder...

Ha-Ha-Ha, never heard that one.

I upgraded to FF 2.0 and man am I happy with it. I haven't had a single crash yet. Not even when I look at... um, you know.

Atrocities · #4 January 9th, 2007, 12:12 AM

Well I have noticed that it is crashing alot on sites that are now switching over to use features that the new InternetExploder 7 uses. Sites like Myspace, youtube, and so on.

Tim_Ward · #5 January 9th, 2007, 12:55 AM

Fix: Use Opera.

shinigami · #6 January 9th, 2007, 01:09 AM

I use FF 2.0 and haven't had any problems.

Azselendor · #7 January 9th, 2007, 01:16 AM

I had some crashing issues when I had a lot of addons installed that conflicted. Try dumping them all, upgrading to 2.0 and adding them back a few at a time.

Captain Kwok · #8 January 9th, 2007, 01:22 AM

I get frequent crashes with firefox - usually javascript or flash errors. Good thing about 2.0 is that it restores your tabs when you reload - including filled-in text boxes.

Fyron · #9 January 9th, 2007, 02:34 AM

Kwok:

It was possible to get tab session restoration with several extensions pre-2.0.

They really need to make more extension features standard...

Azselendor said:
I had some crashing issues when I had a lot of addons installed that conflicted. Try dumping them all, upgrading to 2.0 and adding them back a few at a time.

Yeah, a new profile is usually a good step. You can copy the bookmarks.html file over to get all of your bookmarks resetup instantly. I would suggest you extract the bookmarks.html file from your profile folder, move the profile to a backup location, then delete all firefox files and install a clean FF 2. You can manually paste the bookmarks.html file into your new profile folder without issue (probably want to close FF 2 first).

Atrocities · #10 January 9th, 2007, 02:41 AM

Fyron what version are you running at the moment?