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    Firefox crashing in Vista

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by swarmer, Jan 21, 2008.

  1. swarmer

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    I got a laptop with Vista a couple weeks ago, and I'm having Firefox crash about twice a day. (I've even gone back to using IE!) Both Vista and Firefox are fully up-to-date, and all my other programs seem fine. Any ideas?

    I guess I could try reinstalling it...
     
    swarmer, Jan 21, 2008
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Not enough information. Describe "crash".
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Jan 21, 2008
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  3. nobscot6

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    how, when where, why......
     
    nobscot6, Jan 21, 2008
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    I would try re-installing it if I were you. Are you using any add-ons, etc? Is this when you are downloading things, viewing a certain page, etc?
     
    pixelot, Jan 21, 2008
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  5. swarmer

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    Hmmm maybe I'll have to wait till it happens again. But at least some of the time it didn't actually crash, but Firefox (or the OS) popped up a box saying that Firefox performed an illegal operation and I'm "strongly advised" to close all Windows and restart the program.

    Other times, if I remember correctly, FF has either just hung (not responding) or abruptly exited... but I'll keep an eye on it and see what happens next time there's a problem.

    I have no add-ons at all except what came with it... not even Flash or Adobe Reader.
     
    swarmer, Jan 21, 2008
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    it's been locking up on me when I'm using Inter DL Manager and clicking on active links, don't know if this is your problem....

    IDM is integrated into firefox..... let me know if it's anything like that as I've been chatting with a Moz dev.
     
    nobscot6, Jan 21, 2008
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    I see "firefox.exe has stopped working" everytime I CLOSE firefox. Has anybody had that?
     
    davron, Jan 21, 2008
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  8. swarmer

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    Hmmm... this is Firefox's regular Downloads window, right?
    What do you mean by "active" links?
     
    swarmer, Jan 21, 2008
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    Never seen that, davron, but FF on my Vista machine hangs here at NBR of all places, every so often. Just searches, or acts as if it's doing so, for as long as I let it continue - usually about 10 seconds. Yeah, so I'm a little impatient! :D
     
    bmwrob, Jan 21, 2008
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  10. swarmer

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    Use the search box at the top of the page... not the vBulletin search feature. ;)
     
    swarmer, Jan 21, 2008
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  11. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    Open Firefox > Tools > Error Console

    ... search the Firefox support forums for whatever errors pop up.
     
    Bog, Jan 21, 2008
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  12. Padmé

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    Mine too, Rob. I don't believe it's our machines as I have XP. I blame NBR or Firefox. :p ;)
     
    Padmé, Jan 22, 2008
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    From my XP days where I found IE7 to be intolerable I was a staunch Firefox user and loving it especially with all its addons. But now that I have a new laptop with Vista OS I am finding that every so often my Firefox shuts down and I have to restart FF. I don't find this a big deal since it is able to reload almost all my tabs and windows.

    My big problem with Firefox has been runnimg videos such as Camtasia or You Tube stuff. I am constantly having to shut Firefox down and restarting it to view a video. But when I switch to IE I have no problems viewing the same video. Never had this problem with XP.
     
    jdn108, Jun 22, 2008
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  14. swarmer

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    Try this:

    Right-click on a flash movie > Display icon > Uncheck "Enable hardware acceleration".

    It helped a lot with mine.
     
    swarmer, Jun 22, 2008
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    I keep track on this. I'm using Firefox too and no crashes here.
     
    Rogresalor, Jun 22, 2008
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    Didn't help.
     
    jdn108, Jun 24, 2008
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    mine crashes all the time the error is "permission denied to call method location.tostring", still cant figure out what is causing this
     
    zfactor, Jun 24, 2008
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  18. Wirelessman

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    Does it crashes with one page opened or many of them?
     
    Wirelessman, Jun 24, 2008
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