Firefox keeps crashing?

This weekend I upgraded Ubuntu from 6.04 through 6.10 to 7.04, but now firefox seems to keep crashing, it's wierd, some sites work okay (read mail.yahoo.com works fine) but others ( www.accuweather.com, www.weather.com) crash it immediately...

Anyone any ideas? Or what I could try to fix it, it uninstalling firefox and reinstalling it a valid option (would I do that through synaptic package manager? )

 

It sounds like you probably have a bad plugin in there. Uninstall or upgrade Adobe Acrobat, and any other plugins you may have. If you didn't install all your plugins through apt, you can probably just type this at a console and clear out all user-installed plugins:

Code:

rm -ifr ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/plugins

 

It's probably flash. The flash plugin has been causing me a lot of trouble as late, but from what I understand, it's a problem with the plugin since it's still technically a beta.

 

I've switched away from using Firefox. It crashed once to often for me, and I gave it the flick!

 

Hmm, I'll try your console idea since I'm not sure I've installed any plugins, this is a fairly new installation.

Right now I'm playing with Konqueror since Notebookreview seems to also make firefox crash!

 

Code:

rm -ifr ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/plugins

Hmm, well tried that, didn't seem to work, for now I think it's going to be Konqueror since firefox just seems so unpredictable.

 

It's true... the flash does crash Firefox quite often - especially sites that have flash videos (e.g. youtube).
It's really annoying... because I go on youtube a lot... but I love Linux, so I put up with it.

 

Lysander, what are you using instead now?

If the plugin thing that Pita mentioned doesn't work try not to overload FF with too many tabs/windows. Up the cache in the Edit > Preferences menu (that may help).

I myself have not had any issues, and I am on 7.04 as well.

 

I'm not sure what it is, one of my PC's runs Ubuntu 7.04 and it's just fine, I've been browsing with firefox, no issues, the other one crashes on pretty much every site, and if it's a "overload" problem well... firefox SUCKS because I only have one Tab open!!!

Maybe I'll burn a 7.04 install CD and just do a complete reinstall and see if the two upgrades caused the issue.

 

Yeah, I make it a policy to never upgrade OS-es. Just save yourself hours of frustration by working a bit harder up front and doing a clean install.

 

Nominally I would have done that, but figured I'd give Ubuntu's upgrade path a try, the upgrade on my other PC from 6.10 to 7.04 worked flawlessly, I'd always had issues on my older laptop with 6.10 (screen just wouldn't display properly, appeared to keep trying to use a bad resolution for some reason) so I'd just stuck with 6.04, but had wireless network issues so thought 7.04 might fix those...

I'll probably just try to reformat again later to 7.04 straight..

 

FireFox 2.0 keeps crashing for me also, so i have downgraded to version 1.5

hopefully version 3.0 will be fine.

regards

John.

 

I know that my fellow Ubuntu gurus here will argue that an upgrade path that isn't muddled with EasyUbuntu/Automatix installs will work flawlessly, I still think it's messy. There's always room for mess, and for me I like to have a lean & mean performance machine.

 

I actually pretty much agree with you. I've never had an upgrade from one release to the next go smoothly, but I upgraded from Feisty Herd 5 up through the final release with no problems. I also know that Pita not only upgraded from 6.10 to 7.04, but he did it remotely, and all was well. Maybe some of us just do some weird stuff to our installs.

 

Yup. But I don't use Automatix or any other configuration scripts, so it doesn't break anything when I do an upgrade, since I'm pretty darn close to "plain vanilla". Anything else is just config file changes, or a package installed by hand, stuff like libdvdcss2. And on the laptop, that wasn't an upgrade. I figured going from 32bit 6.10 -> 64bit 7.04 was too much of a leap, so I just saved my home directory and reinstalled Along with upgrading the hard drive, repartitioning, expanding filesystems, increasing the size of the swap partition... oh

 

How about directl downloading firefox from the firefox website and installing it ?
Just unpack the tar zipped file and run he firefox executable,
Mine runs fine

 

Problem is that it's not quite that easy to install. You have to compile it from source, and Ubuntu puts all the Firefox stuff in a weird place, so it's hard to get rid of all the old files first.

 

QFT. I'm still new to compiling, so it's totally foreign to me...

 

One of us needs to write a tarball guide for the people just starting off with Linux. We could get the "ball" rolling... . I did a quick Google search for something similar, and found a link. I don't know if it's a good one, but perhaps emulating this would be useful?

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

 

You dont need to compile it, just untar the the files in home directory.
Also, no need to remove the ubuntu firefox installation, just install the new version in home directory.
Here is what I do

Code:

cd /home/wearetheborg
mkdir inst
cd inst

download firefox-2.0.0.0.3.tar.gz into this directory and untar it.

Code:

tar xvfz firefox-2.0.0.0.3.tar.gz

This should untar the files in a directory called firefox (pull path: /home/wearetheborg/inst/firefox).
Just cd into it and execute firefox

Code:

cd firefox
./firefox

Wheneve you want to run firefox, you'll have to run your newer installted version (by executing the last two commands)