FireFox Crashes........

BAJJERFAN

Anyone else have a lot of crashes with older versions of FF? I need it in order to use the search function here so I'm loathe to update. It's a PITA to have to run to IE every time one wants to search the fora. Post a sizzling hot coin to celebrate this heat wave.

Barndog

never had the crash problem with FF.

BAJJERFAN

If I try to open a YouTube video posted here, it freezes FF. After reading a recent thread here about security, I dumped my AV and other security software and installed MSE, Microsoft Security Essentials. I lost all of my toolbars in FF and can't seem to get them back.

bronzemat

Firefox is @$*& nowadays. I use chrome for several years now & really like it.

Only time I have to ditch chrome is when we can change our avatars. Then I just use Safari in developer mode and it lets me change it.

ricko

Google Chrome..... fast, stable..... Cheers, RickO

19Lyds

FF = Frequent Flame Out's!

Eagleguy

I find that I have less trouble with Firefox if I disable the Shockwave Flash Plugin. If you look in Task Manager it is a process called plugin-container.exe and it eats up a ton of memory.

JH

BAJJERFAN

<< <i>Google Chrome..... fast, stable..... Cheers, RickO >>



Yep, except I can't search here with it.

BAJJERFAN

<< <i>I find that I have less trouble with Firefox if I disable the Shockwave Flash Plugin. If you look in Task Manager it is a process called plugin-container.exe and it eats up a ton of memory.

JH >>



One can go to Tools, add-ons and then plugins and disable it that way too.

In checking this, I noticed that there is a Shockwave flash and a Shockwave for Director. Disabling the Shockwave for Director still lets one run the videos with the result that FF runs a little faster and better and my toolbars are back. Crash details still refer back to a "move player". When I click on options for an add-on it freezes FF.

The crash happens mostly when I close out FF. FF sometimes becomes "not responding" if eBay windows are open for an extended time.

DIMEMAN

I have all kinds of ff crashes on my desktop because it only has 512 memory. But it never crashes on my laptop, which is newer and has more memory. I need to get a new desktop. It's been a real good (Dell) one but you just need more memory now than you did in 2005 when I got the Dell. Now some have 6-8 Gig of memory as opposed to 512 meg.

Eagleguy

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<< <i>I find that I have less trouble with Firefox if I disable the Shockwave Flash Plugin. If you look in Task Manager it is a process called plugin-container.exe and it eats up a ton of memory.

JH >>



One can go to Tools, add-ons and then plugins and disable it that way too. >>



Yeah, that's what I meant Closing it from the task manager only works temporarilly. Once you open another Firefox window or refresh it will turn back on. Disabling it turns it completely off until you decide otherwise. The task manager does show the amount of memory it is using and it is illuminating.

I agree with Dimeman - I also have more trouble on my desktop than my laptop. Definitely memory related.

JH

BAJJERFAN

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<< <i>I find that I have less trouble with Firefox if I disable the Shockwave Flash Plugin. If you look in Task Manager it is a process called plugin-container.exe and it eats up a ton of memory.

JH >>



One can go to Tools, add-ons and then plugins and disable it that way too. >>



Yeah, that's what I meant Closing it from the task manager only works temporarilly. Once you open another Firefox window or refresh it will turn back on. Disabling it turns it completely off until you decide otherwise. The task manager does show the amount of memory it is using and it is illuminating.

I agree with Dimeman - I also have more trouble on my desktop than my laptop. Definitely memory related.

JH >>



That must be why my AVG advisor [when I had it] would open up a little pop-up window saying how much memory FF was sucking up.

LanceNewmanOCC

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i love the ironies

firefox 3.6 which allows forum searches works better on my notebook. the only version and browser i've used on it since i got it over a year ago.

ff 3.6 slows and crashes after i use it a while on my desktop. could be because of all the things i do on my desktop though.

now i have ff 4.0 which doesn't allow advanced searches under the search button. arggh.

i just checked and with 13 plugins with firefox that i have installed on my desktop, i don't even know where to start disabling ><

not being able to watch police chases, cat/kitten, music, fail, metal detecting etc videos would be unacceptable, so no disabling plugins on desktops.
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WingedLiberty1957

Here is my "Sizzling Hot Coin to Celebrate the HeatWave" asked for by the OP.

The obverse looks like molten lava, and the reverse is like looking into the sun.

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>That must be why my AVG advisor [when I had it] would open up a little pop-up window saying how much memory FF was sucking up. >>



a notification that usually annoys me as i really don't go over 500, but when i get closer to 800-900 i know i'm about to have a browser crash and appreciate the notification.
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UNCOnly

<< <i>Anyone else have a lot of crashes with older versions of FF? I need it in order to use the search function here so I'm loathe to update. It's a PITA to have to run to IE every time one wants to search the fora. Post a sizzling hot coin to celebrate this heat wave.

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Never used it.

I have Google Chrome.

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>Here is my "Sizzling Hot Coin to Celebrate the HeatWave" asked for by the OP.

oops. good job staying on-topic.

i have nothing hot to offer as of now
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notwilight

With the new versions of IE, I get a red X in the new message box and can't post so I use Chrome for this site. --Jerry

seanq

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<< <i>That must be why my AVG advisor [when I had it] would open up a little pop-up window saying how much memory FF was sucking up. >>



a notification that usually annoys me as i really don't go over 500, but when i get closer to 800-900 i know i'm about to have a browser crash and appreciate the notification.
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Last week Firefox locked up while trying to access my Google mail account, when I opened the taskbar it was using almost 1.6Mb of RAM. Like Dimeman I have an older desktop with 512k RAM and if I use FF for more than half an hour it will slow to a crawl. Chrome has been a better option on the newer laptop but I've found it to be just as much a memory hog as FF, it just breaks it up into several separate processes.


Sean Reynolds