Comments on: Firefox Crashing? 4 Simple Solutions

By: rush

rush — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:17:43 +0000

thumbs up to Rob Bird.

old thread but wat the heck.

the title of the article should be “How much I love Firefox and want to prove that it is YOUR fault the Firefox is crashing on you even though all other browsers work fine”

By: Rob Bird

Rob Bird — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:36:20 +0000

I did everything a reasonable user who is not a geek might do to work with Firefox. If that makes me a complainer instead of a doer, and out of 100% of Firefox users who find a problem 80% of us go elsewhere because we fail to meet some geek’s standard of how we should admire and forgive Firefox because, gee, it’s not Firefox’s fault . . . well then, my friend, Firefox is F’d.

By: Paleo Cookbook

Paleo Cookbook — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:36:14 +0000

I used FF for years, no problems at all. For the last 4-5 months it’s not only the program that’s crashing it’s also causing my PC to crash. Sadly now uninstalled, using GC without any problems at all. Pity, because I liked FF, let’s hope it gets fixed in a future version

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:53:13 +0000

ricoPan is right on. Maybe pristine Firefox works fine and it’s add-ons or corruptions or whatever that cause the problems but as a consumer it’s not my job to sort that out. By virtue of the sequence of events I’d guess there’s a problem with newer versions of Firefox. I tried uninstalling, including uninstalling all the pieces parts that Uninstall doesn’t uninstall, and reinstalling to no avail. Links sometimes don’t work; can’t open a second copy of Firefox by clicking the shortcut if one is already running; still get’s “stuck,” ie freezes up and sucks up about half my cpu time (have to “end process” and restart to use it again); Firefox may decide not to boot at all without restarting the computer. If Firefox is susceptible to these problems the issue is with Firefox whether or not the code works fine in the lab. In the real world with real users, at least with this one, my good buddy Firefox can no longer do what I need it to do, what it used to do all the time. I’ve been Chroming away blissfully for the last couple of weeks and finally uninstalled Firefox permanently.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:03:40 +0000

i have to agree with cassandra and rob … i have one laptop repeatedly crashing and another running like crap. tried the safe mode on the crasher w/o success. on the other laptop the plugin container and firefox processes seem to gradually eat up more and more memory until it firefox crashes or gets so slow as to require reboot. firefox has got some issues right now, too bad, been using it for years.

By: Psyphi

Psyphi — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:16:08 +0000

Firefox was crashing repeatedly for me. No addons. Reinstalls didn’t fix it. I finally ran a registry cleaning program and that fixed it. Probably a corrupt key was causing the crashes.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:03:20 +0000

I’ve had similar problems with Firefox over the last 4-6 months (but not for years prior). Symptoms: runs very slowly sometimes and takes a long time to boot; used to be able to close easily by “x’ing” out but now when I do that it may not reboot, so I’m trying to use “exit,” but still why did it work fine for so long but now doesn’t?; on some web pages it will not load up a link I’ve clicked on but I never have that problem with IE; sometimes it seems to get “stuck,” ie uses 49% cpu time (oddly not usually 50% or 48%). I’m not much of a computer mechanic but I don’t think I have a lot of add-ons. I’d uninstall and reinstall but I’m a little intimidated about how to save my painstakingly collected bookmark file. I have a firewall and use NoScript; regularly run antivirus and adaware programs and nothing ever comes up. Why would those programs be problems when for years I’ve used Firefox blissfully without a hitch? Googling up my symptoms I read that certain files may have become “corrupted” and that even reinstalling may not be reliable. Geez I’m such a whiner, but in my ignorance I can’t help but think Firefox has gone past the converging curves of usefulness on the one hand and safety and fanciness on the other. But I truly have no expertise in this so I’m open to suggestions. NB: I’m visiting this site on IE, not Firefox.

By: Shivanand Sharma

Shivanand Sharma — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:38:39 +0000

Cassandra: Have you tried the safe mode? If Firefox crashes regularly even in the safemode and you can duplicate the issue at will then you can create a bug report at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org.

BTW it would be interesting to know which forum is complaining about these crashes.

By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:30:31 +0000

I’ve given up on Firefox completely. It literally crashes on me twenty times I day. I have no add-ons, plug-ins or anything else, just the basic 3.5 browser which, in the last month, has gone from great to a piece of garbage. I only use Explorer or Chrome at this point (and it’s not just me – one whole forum I participate in is complaining about these new crashes and most have now switched to Chrome).

By: papabear

papabear — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:38:49 +0000

my FF crashed a lot since upgraded to 3.6 and it is using a lot more memory compared to Google Chrome… If not for some of the plugins, I would have moved to Chrome completely…