The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Solved! Firefox crashes with pop-up window & javascript

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by dayphx, Jan 20, 2008.

  1. dayphx

    dayphx Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    27
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have been pulling my hair out the past couple of days! Firefox suddenly started crashing when viewing certain websites. I narrowed it down to javascript & pop-up windows. I tried un-installing and re-installing firefox several times but the problem continued. Finally, I found the answer in a Mozilla forum. Disable the "Thinkvantage Password Manager" extension in Firefox. (Tools / Add-ons). Apparently, a recent update from Lenovo broke this functionality. Fortunately, I don't use it anyway.

    I hope this helps someone else who is experiencing this problem. I know I was getting very frustrated.
     
    dayphx, Jan 20, 2008
    #1
  2. lampadephoria

    lampadephoria Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Thank you very much for your posting! It ends my DAYS of agony! I hope the Firefox report agent will route those crash reports to Lenovo quickly.
     
    lampadephoria, Jan 21, 2008
    #2
  3. slickrick68

    slickrick68 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    11
    Messages:
    119
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    mine still does it. :(
     
    slickrick68, Jan 21, 2008
    #3
  4. klutchrider

    klutchrider Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    538
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Oh, I figured this out the first day that they did the update...sorry I guess I should of informed everyone else. :(
     
    klutchrider, Jan 21, 2008
    #4
  5. gamemint

    gamemint Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    391
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    THanks it worked
     
    gamemint, Jan 21, 2008
    #5
  6. eKeith

    eKeith Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Thank you very much Dayphx!
     
    eKeith, Jan 22, 2008
    #6
  7. dayphx

    dayphx Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    27
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    To everyone who said thanks.. you are welcome. I knew other people would run into this problem too.
     
    dayphx, Jan 22, 2008
    #7
  8. g2tl

    g2tl Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    30
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    you saved me a clean-install that would have led me to nowhere :D
     
    g2tl, Jan 22, 2008
    #8
  9. higgy

    higgy Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Thanks Dayphx
    I too was pulling hair out! Fixed it right up,great post
     
    higgy, Jan 27, 2008
    #9