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    Studio XPS 1340, Win 7 and Firefox

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Soultics, Oct 17, 2009.

  1. Soultics

    Soultics Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've been running Windows7 on my laptop for a good month now, or longer, and I've always had this issue with Firefox, it constantly crashes. I can't really reproduce it at will, but its often enough that in a one hour browsing session it can crash 2-3 times.

    All drivers are up to date, Firefox is up to date...I run the same on my desktop and have never had an issue so it must be something specific. Anyone else having this issue?
     
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    I found Firefox unstable on my 1340 running Vista. No suggestions as to what causes it I'm afraid, but for what its worth I find Chrome faster and more stable. YMMV :)
     
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    FF 3.5.x with Win7 Ultimate x64 on mine, and it's fine. Is it *only* FF that's doing this, or are you getting other errors like services failing or bluescreens? If so, check your temps. Also, how much RAM do you have and in what config?
     
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  4. Soultics

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    P8600, 4GB Ram, 500GB 7200RPM
     
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    Can you tell if the temps are pretty high when you get the freezes? What about the other questions (bluescreens, other things crashing)?
     
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    IE8 crashes regulary for me aswell.
    I think its a flash or javascript problem, but dunno since it seems t be independent of program.

    I try to press the nice "check solution online"-thingy everytime it happens, to see if it will get a fix at some stage :S
     
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    No problems here, regardless of what browser.
     
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    Oh sorry. No of course not, if I was getting other issues I would fix that first, this is just more annoyance. I have the extended battery which helps with temperatures, I use the laptop for school so no games are on 98% of the time. Its barely warm to the touch, not hot like I've seen it get before I got the other battery.

    I checked my addons(for Firefox) today and the only difference in the computers now was the laptop came with McAfee, so I kind of just used it still. I turned off McAfee SiteAdvisor, don't know if anyone even runs that.
     
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    Sounds like you might be on to something. Another thing you could do is delete your profile and create another in Firefox.
     
    Student Driver, Oct 18, 2009
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    Just to post an update, and that I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't even bother thinking McAfee might be the issue, anyway....McAfee SiteAdvisor was the problem, so anyone that uses the software that came with their Dell (if you get McAfee, was part of my EPP) just be aware that it doesn't work with Firefox/Win7.
     
    Soultics, Oct 19, 2009
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    P8600, 4gb RAM and the 9500 GPU (although usually running just the integrated card) running Vista HP 32 bit.

    I think it was something to do with resuming from sleep- not had any other stability problems, and the temperatures were fine for using on my lap. Not a major issue for me anyway.

    Cheers.
     
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