FireFox Crashes

Anyone else having trouble with Firefox? I've had it absolutely lock up and crash FOUR times in the last six hours -- on two different machines with different web pages and other applications running. It's quickly getting VERY annoying.

Posted by: Ogre at 05:38 PM

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1 I've had problems getting to your site the last 2 weeks. Other sites would open fine. I never had a problem in the past.

Posted by: Tomslick at May 02, 2006 06:46 PM (RpnNu)

2 Do you have the latest version. The old versions crash more often.

Mark

Posted by: Mark at May 02, 2006 06:48 PM (Kcv2E)

3 Tomslick, I'm not sure the site has anything to do with it, because it's crashing when I'm other places, too. Heck, I don't even load my own site all that often (I should more often to check for mistakes...)

And Mark, thanks for dropping a line -- I have 1.0.7 and it almost never crashed before...

Posted by: Ogre at May 02, 2006 07:05 PM (/k+l4)

4 it's working

Posted by: William Teach at May 02, 2006 07:27 PM (IRsCk)

5 Not my site! My computer's Firefox!

I'll just be typing along in a text box and WHAM, everything locks up. It's never happened when I've been viewing my site, only in other places, and not even in the same place twice.

Posted by: Ogre at May 02, 2006 07:32 PM (/k+l4)

6 fine

Posted by: William Teach at May 02, 2006 07:35 PM (IRsCk)

7 Eh?

Posted by: Ogre at May 02, 2006 07:44 PM (/k+l4)

8 now and then.

Posted by: William Teach at May 02, 2006 08:07 PM (IRsCk)

9 I'd can only reply with: twelve and one-half.

Posted by: Ogre at May 02, 2006 09:20 PM (blszc)

10 I've had a few weird things, also on my Tbird account.

Posted by: Robert P at May 03, 2006 12:24 AM (V/N23)

11 Have you done a full reboot after each crash, or just restarted the app?

When I had this problem some weeks ago with FF, I discovered that when it crashes and you clear the dialog box, it disappears from the task bar and the task list, but it was still a running app. I discovered this because I use a more comprehensive task manager than the one that ships with Windoze (called PRCView - for Process Viewer - is free and you can Google it to find it if you want - I highly recommend it).

Anyhow, I've since surmised that that "hidden, but crashed" instance will crash additional, fresh instances. I either reboot, or use PRCView to kill the hidden, crashed instance before restarting.

While I've got you - since you're in NC, perhaps you know of any live feeds on election results in Durham, specifically DA Nifong? I've been following the Duke Lacross thing with interest. I'm hoping Black whips Nifong's ASS.

Posted by: Jeff (Ponytailed Conservative) at May 03, 2006 01:20 AM (NYw9n)

12 Yeah, at least two crashes in the past 24 hours, both times it totally locked up on me. Both times, I was surfing BlogExplosion.

Posted by: Kym at May 03, 2006 04:04 AM (aQewg)

13 Ah, I shall try rebooting more. Thanks.

And the political animal nifong did indeed win. Look for much of the hoopla surrounding the case to suddenly disappear.

Posted by: Ogre at May 03, 2006 10:10 AM (blszc)

14 There's a new version today that might help if it was from a DoS attack. More likely you have a corrupt installation so try uninstalling then reinstalling while disabling your Add-on extensions. Re-enable extensions one at a time until things become un-reliable again.

Posted by: Saskboy at May 03, 2006 10:05 PM (1G8bM)

15 I saw that new version show up, thanks! And I didn't think about extensions, I've got a pile in there. I'll try disabling some, good idea.

Posted by: Ogre at May 03, 2006 10:06 PM (blszc)

16 I hear too often extensions being blamed for Firefox crashes. At least I for one, crash consitently on many news sites, including the mozilla plugins site, and I've installed NO plugins nor any extensions besides Talkback. I have no crashes with any other program. And WinXP runs perfect. If Firefox keeps crashing it will loose its appeal.

Posted by: coy at May 13, 2006 06:57 AM (2R8T7)

17 Indeed, it's lost it's appeal with me. Now if IE would suddenly be html-standards compliant, IE would wipe Firefox out.

Posted by: Ogre at May 14, 2006 03:22 PM (blszc)






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