i can’t use firefox because it keeps randomly crashing on me every few minutes (sometimes just after opening it, sometimes after 20 minutes, regardless of the page i’m on). i’ve tried everything from safe mode through firewall settings to clean reinstall, but nothing helps. i’ve been to the mozilla troubleshooting page and exhausted all of their suggestions as well. this is after a full reinstall of windows xp (SP3, home ed.), and it was happening BOTH on the previous system and this one. i’ve also run several virus and malware scans, but it’s still happening.
anyone have any more suggestions?
Stop using it. . . I decided today that i will no longer be using as Forefox everytime i install it it works fine for a while and then becomes slow and buggy and crashes all the time. after searching on the net a million times i realize that there is no sure way of fixing it and so have switched back to IE, Which works well enough. I guess firefox just works with for most but not for some. Luck of the draw! I know this doesn’t really answer your question but thats just my opinion. If anyone can suggest an alternative to firefox google chrome is not that i would like to hear it myself.
Many “Firefox” problems are caused by incompatible themes, extensions, or programming errors in plug-ins. As a quick diagnostic, you may wish to switch to the default theme or, if the problem appeared after installing a new extension or after upgrading Firefox, use the add-ons manager (accessible from the Tools menu) to update or disable your extensions, before going through the diagnostic steps below. Starting with Firefox 3, plug-ins can also be disabled using the add-ons manager. Exit Firefox completely and reboot the computer. (If you can open Firefox and use the menus) clear the cache: “Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Network / Cache (Firefox 2) or Network / Offline Storage (Firefox 3) -> Clear Now” and clear any other private data you do not wish to save such as cookies and download history, if the problem is not resolved, then: Close Firefox (if open) using “File -> Exit” and make sure it is not running in the background (on some systems, you may need to wait awhile for the Firefox process to terminate). Optionally make a profile backup to your data and settings SafeGuard and then: Customization and preference issues: Start Firefox in Safe Mode. The “Firefox Safe Mode” window will appear, containing some troubleshooting options. Check the boxes, “Reset toolbars and controls” (this will remove any toolbar customizations) and “Reset all user preferences to Firefox defaults” (this will remove any user-set preferences and restores the default theme). Next, press the button, “Make Changes and Restart”. . Note: Instead of using Safe Mode, advanced users can rename the LocalStore. rdf and prefs. js files So that their customizations and settings can be easily restored. If the problem is not resolved, close Firefox and then, Extension and theme issues: Check the list of problematic extensions, to see if your problem is listed, if not, start Firefox in Safe Mode and, when the “Firefox Safe Mode” window appears, press the button, “Continue in Safe Mode”. If the problem Persists in safe mode, continue with the next numbered step. If the problem goes away in Safe Mode: Update or uninstall the added theme or select the default theme in “Tools -> Add-ons -> Themes”. Update, disable, or uninstall your added extensions via “Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions” (see Extension issues below). Profile issues: Create a new Firefox profile (You can later use the Firefox Profile Manager to return to your original profile). If the problem goes away in the new profile, you can either selectively copy your important profile data to the new profile and reinstall your added extensions and themes or you can try to fix the original profile (see below). If the problem is not resolved in a new profile: Plug-in issues: You can disable your plug-ins to see if the issue is related plugin. See Plug-in issues below for details. In Firefox 3 0 and above, use the add-ons manager (“Tools -> Add-ons -> Plugins”) plugin to disable each. If the problem Persists: Clean reinstall: Download a new Firefox installer from Mozilla. com and then close Firefox completely, delete the Firefox installation directory and reinstall Firefox. If this does not help, you may need to uninstall Firefox completely before reinstalling it. See Clean reinstall below for details. If the issue is closed unresolvedIn that case, it’s impossible to know which extension is the culprit (due to its lack of compatibility with the new Firefox version). It may be enough to just update all the extensions in “Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions -> Find Updates”. Otherwise, the quickest solution to many problems is to check Firefox Whether disabling all extensions helps. Start Firefox in Safe Mode (not Windows Safe Mode). When the “Firefox Safe Mode” window appears, press the button, “Continue in Safe Mode”. This will start the program with all extensions disabled and with the default theme. If the problem disappears when all extensions are disabled, restart Firefox normally and disable about one half of the extensions. Open the Extensions Manager via “Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions” button then select each extension and click the “Disable”. Restart Firefox. If the problem is gone quietly when you restart Firefox, the extension is buggy among the ones you disabled. Note these down, and then enable about half of them. Restart Firefox and keep narrowing down the number of suspects in the same way of always Halving the number of suspects. If the “Firefox” problem comes back at any point in this detective process, you know that there is at least one buggy extension in the group you just enabled, but keep in mind that there could also be other buggy ones among the group you disabled . (So ??the only way of making sure that you find all buggy extensions is to ignore only those groups that did not cause any problems when enabled.) You will probably want to uninstall any extensions found to be “buggy”, however, if the extension is important to you, you may want to see if reinstalling it
I had this same problem with the previous version. Here’s how to get around it. First, check your add-ons. Go to Tools, then add-ons and in the “Extensions” tab uninstall or disable any add-on that you do not use. This includes Java Quick Starter and Microsoft. NET Framework Assistance. Second, while in add-ons, go to the “Plugins” tab down and disable any plugins that cause your browser to slow. In Particular tree synthesis. -Adobe Acrobat PDF files from Which bring up websites onto your browser. Turning it off will this preventable and your PDF files will not open externally. Get-Plus Plus for Adobe. This is not needed. – Java Platform. Microsoft DRM-MetaStream QuickTime Plugin, Which Allows you to view QT video on websites-Shockwave for Director-Window Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Libraryand finally, Window Presentation Foundation. All of the above is not needed. Third, you can tweak Firefox to run faster on your computer. The link below is video on who to do it. http://www. youtube. com / watch? v = 6hJAt_VasTcDon’t forget to restart Firefox in order for the changes to take affect. Fourth, if you download files into your computer, go to tool then download and delete files to download from the list. If you do not want to have any file in the download status bar in the future, go to Tools, then Options. Click on the “Privacy” icon and unchecked the box that says “Remember Download History.” Finally, always, always clean out your recent history, that way Firefox can work faster. Try doing every two weeks or every month, its up to you. If you do not how to clean out your browsing history, the video link below will show you how. http://www. youtube. com / watch? v = HrR8CbmiZ-oif you’re browser is leaking memory, the link below will be very helpful with the problem. http://windhair1000. blogspot. com/2009/03/how-to-fix-firefox-memory-leak. html this measure works well with all versions. I hope this information is very helpful. Good luck
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