I’ve tried 0.9, the first release of 1.0 and the ‘official’ release. In each case, I’ve had a crash within a few hours - after which it fails to load at all. I get a frozen Firefox window. Any ideas if I’m just having very bad luck, or if there’s something else going on?
(And BTW, I’m already using the latest version of Mozilla - but there’s definite speed improvements with Firefox that I’d like to be taking opportunity of.)
I haven’t had those issues. I do get a lot (it seems) of page failures, but that could be something else.
Yes, I do. I’ve asked about it a few times and suggestions have been java problems. My local newspaper’s homepage will crash it more often than not, and there are a few pages that load, then load again, and load again…making it impossible to read anything on the page. But yeah, I do experience many crashes with Firefox. I am using version 1.0, the preview release. I also experienced problems with earlier versions. I don’t know what to do to fix any java problems.
I’ve never gotten any of that. Odd. I did have a problem with the download managet tweak extension going wonky on me after upgrading to release 1.0, but that went away somehow.
So far so good. Just have a bit of an issue with the fact that yahoo mail opens in the current window instead of opening another brower window, and some of the data entry boxes are incorrectly sized.
Hmm, I haven’t had any problems with instability in Firefox. In fact, I’ve been pretty impressed with its stability and speed overall. I have used it since 0.7 or so.
I have not had any big crashes with Firefox. I did get the latest version last night and when I tried to add a new theme I got a Java error. I uninstalled Java and re-installed and now everything works well.
I’m using 0.9 and haven’t had that type of problem. I’ve had it crash twice, but in both cases when I went back in everything was fine. I’m running it under Windows ME, by the way. Don’t know if that makes a difference in how it performs.
Only other issue I’ve had is running into the occasional page that’s only functional with IE.
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I’ve only ever crashed it when visiting a poorly made (usually java-heavy) website.
As for the recovery, I think I know the problem you’re having. After the program force closes on you, hit Crtl+Alt+Del and you’ll see “Firefox” is still listed as an active program. Highlight it and click “End Process” and it will disappear off that list.
You can now re-start Firefox.
Mine has still been crashing 2-3 times daily. Checking Gmail will cause it to crash (about once out of every four times I check my mail), too. I don’t think there is any java on the gmail page - any experts know for sure?
How would I go about fixing it? Isn’t java built into Firefox? I know crash problems are hard to sort out, but I really like Firefox and I don’t understand why I’m having these problems.
I’ve also found recent releases of Firefox to be less stable than 0.8 was. By “less stable” I mean crashing once per week or so, compared to almost never. And while it’s obviously a better and more secure browser than Internet Explorer, there is evidence to suggest that Internet Explorer’s code is more stable.
I’ve only seen it crash on sites that may be targeted to IE, specifically msnbc.com and microsoft.com. I simply assumed someone at these sites was actively looking for ways to foil users who used browsers other than IE. The activity was definitely code related, because it would happen every time I visited a particular page on the site (at least until the page changed, as is often the case with msnbc).
Sometimes, but not always, Firefox doesn’t restart for me after one of these crashes. I’ll bring up Task Manager and under processes firefox.exe will still be running. If I end that process, Firefox will then start up again normally. At least, it has so far.
The problem I’m describing isn’t solved by killing the process, or even after rebooting - Firefox still freezes while loading. And one of the crashes happened when I had nothing but the SDMB open…
The only problem I have had with Firefox so far is that sometimes Slashdot 
will sometimes randomaly cause Firefox to freeze up hard, with CPU usage jumping to 99%. The funny thing is that once I close Firefox, then explorer will jump right up to 99% CPU usage. I have to either log out, or reboot to use my computer again.
I’ve been using gmail a lot with firefox and never experienced a problem - I’m using self compiled versions under linux though.
As for solving what causes the crash, doesn’t your version of firefox pop-up a crash report utility where you can report the bug to the firefox team?
What am I, invisible?? :dubious:
Boscibo that doesn’t sound normal at all! I check Gmail oh, 10 or so times a day and it’s never crashed Firefox not even once for me. The only site that consistently gives me a problem with Firefox is Microsoft.com, and can you blame em?
I was having frequent-crash problems with one particular release of Firefox–I think it was the 0.9 version. I had had no problems before then. I upgraded to 1.0, and the problems went away. 
I do get a crash report pop-up sent, but that isn’t helping me sort out my problems. It just pops up and shows the repot being sent, no clues to what is happening.
It is annoying, but not bad enough to quit using it.
Very Important Point.
I used to have awful problems with Firefox crashing at least 15 times a day, sometimes with the process still running as mentioned above. Here’s how I solved the problems:
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[li] Uninstall TabBrowser Extension, if you have it. It causes problems for a lot of people, and there are workarounds provided you’re not a power-user.[/li][li] Look at this upgrading FAQ. Specifically, this part:[/li]
Do the clean upgrade. You will lose some of your settings, but important information like bookmarks, logins, saved passwords, etc, will still be available. Remember to backup the profile before deleting it. Your profile is usually available at
[li] Work with the clean profile for a while and see if there are crashes still.[/li][li] Add all your extensions except TabBrowser Extension and use it a couple of days to check if there are crashes.[/li][li]Experiment with TBE now.[/li][/ul]
Absolutely no crashes since I went through this rigmarole. Admittedly, I was forced to give up the TBE because it turned out to be responsible for all my crashing.
Disclaimer: Follow instructions at your own risk. I’m not responsible for any damage or information loss or whatnot that may result from doing what’s mentioned here. Everything is IMHO, YMMV, PQR. Yadda yadda so on and so forth.