How to stop Firefox crashing?

[joseppi]

Yes, I've cleared cache and cookies, but Firefox keeps crashing in some but not all websites.  What do I need to do to stop that?

[ElCuervo]

have you also tried disabling all addons? If that stops it, then enable them one at at time to find the culprit.

[luikki]

well... i really don't know...
firefox doesn't crash... and i browse a lot of all kind of sites...
can you name one of the sites causing the crash?

[joseppi]

I just installed PCLinuxOS LXDE and I have not added anything.

When I first installed it, Firefox worked fine, and the only websites that I tried out were sites for which I have href links in a small html menu that I use ... all of which work fine on five other computers that I use (all of which have older (apparently more reliable) versions of Firefox). The new installation that I just did installes FIrefox 5.0.  My other computers use Firefox 3.5.

The other computers are running PCLinux with KDE.  This is my first attempt with LXDE.

[ElCuervo]

Something is seriously wrong with the repository you're using. The latest version of FF in my repo is 6.0.  I don't use LXDE, though, so I don't know anything about what the latest CD will install. Hopefully someone else can enlighten us about that...

[joseppi]

I haven't used a repository for any additions.
I just downloaded the latest version from the PCLinuxOS website.

BTW: I've recently read quite a few reports of major problems with 6.0

[luikki]

if you didn't  update you are running firefox 5.0.
try to browse those sites without using the small html menu. just type the addresses and see if firefox crashes...

 

[DeBaas]

Firefox is using another hardware accelleration.
What is your Video card/chip and driver ?
I just changed a PC with ATI radeon 9600 from ati to radeon driver (as discribed elswhere in the forum) and the lock-ups are magically gone.

[menotu]

BTW: I've recently read quite a few reports of major problems with 6.0

I'm unsure why this should be as there weren't that many "big" changes from version 5 to 6.

From doing a quick web search it seems some WIndows users are having issues which seem to point to their AV software.

My version of Firefox 6 is rock solid - hasn't given me any issues whatsoever.

I would update my system and mebbe install/reinstall xulrunner as well.

And as mentioned try disabling Flash Hardware Acceleration (is it only Flash sites that crash?)

[ElCuervo]

I haven't used a repository for any additions.
I just downloaded the latest version from the PCLinuxOS website.

BTW: I've recently read quite a few reports of major problems with 6.0

You're a hoot, my friend. Update your computer so you can be on the same page as the rest of us, and if you still have problems let us know. Certainly FF 6.0 works fine here; of course, all my computers are fully up to date.

[ostrosky.jeremiah]

I use synaptic to update my computer once or twice a week but I am experiencing intermittent crashes in Firefox as well.  Most of the time I will not actually be DOING anything when it happens (ex: sitting idle on my router config page).  I'm going to try installing xulrunner as a previous poster suggested and see if that helps.  Firefox on my machine is 6.0 as well.

[mcik]

this might sound crazy but ever heard of a overrunning register or data overflow the ff browser can be forced to crash at some sites who use to mu information that can kill the browser in a normal windows xp today i saw something unusal it rebooted my computer for no reason and  i had three open tabs at one facebook and infowars and prisonplanet one is a known govt flunky site ok facebook they use information overkill to fill a whole page with more info than the browser can handle
right now i am going to pclinuxos the second time the first time i did  a nono trying to put in a heavy cpu   fan from zalman but it warned never do something drill in certain areas of oblong trashed the mobo bigtime but let stay on the subject with ff use the version called 3.4 or  3.6 it might solve the problem

[Old-Polack]

this might sound crazy but ever heard of a overrunning register or data overflow the ff browser can be forced to crash at some sites who use to mu information that can kill the browser in a normal windows xp today i saw something unusal it rebooted my computer for no reason and  i had three open tabs at one facebook and infowars and prisonplanet one is a known govt flunky site ok facebook they use information overkill to fill a whole page with more info than the browser can handle
right now i am going to pclinuxos the second time the first time i did  a nono trying to put in a heavy cpu   fan from zalman but it warned never do something drill in certain areas of oblong trashed the mobo bigtime but let stay on the subject with ff use the version called 3.4 or  3.6 it might solve the problem

How about using proper punctuation in your text blob, so others can actually read what message you are trying to convey?

[Neal ManBear]

O-P,
I think mcik said that we should downgrade firefox from 7.0 to 3.6 to fix a security issue. LOL Imagine that. Use an outdated browser to fix a security issue.     

[Old-Polack]

O-P,
I think mcik said that we should downgrade firefox from 7.0 to 3.6 to fix a security issue. LOL Imagine that. Use an outdated browser to fix a security issue.     

If I could have reached that conclusion on my own, I could have added... "so we can laugh at what you actually said, rather than what we imagined you said."