Firefox 2.0 keeps crashing!!!!

[Guest]

Help!

I recently downloaded firefox 2.0, but it keeps crashing! I mean, every 45mins or so it will crash.

I am running it on windows xp (unfortunately). All of my other software used by firefox (e.g. Adobe reader) are all up to date, and as far as I know there are no viruses on my computer.

This problem is starting to drive me crazy! lol

Thanks,

Alan Kershaw
Cambridge, UK

[malliz]

Have you read http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes ?
My first move would be to run Firefox in Firefox Safe mode to see if it's an extension causing the crashes
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode

[Crawlerbasher]

I'm having the same problem as mine.

Every so offten it would just freeze for no resion at all and I am force to restart firefox.
And some times it dose not start at all unless I reboot.

[betona]

I've had a few crashes and they are always caused by one of three events: Either I click to close one tab and it immediately crashes or I click on a link on a page (any site) that goes to an external site which which would load in a new tab, or I right-click on a link and select open in new tab. Each time it happens it results in a Mozilla feedback cycle so I hope whoever gets them is seeing a pattern.

There's no rhyme or reason when it might happen and I have no tab-related extensions installed.

[Guest]

the only thing is that I don't have any extensions or add-ons. Any other ideas?

Alan Kershaw
Cambridge, UK

[Dann0r]

I've also been experiencing crashes since upgrading to Firefox 2. Before, I was using Firefox 1.5 and that very rarely crashed, in fact I can't ever remember it crashing.

Yesterday morning I upgraded to Firefox 2, and I ended up having two complete lockups in Firefox yesterday, and I've had another one just now. When Firefox freezes, the egg timer cursor is shown whenever the Firefox window has the focus (clicking tabs, menus, etc has no effect), and Firefox stops responding completely. I like the fact that I can resume with all my tabs after a crash; but point being, it shouldn't be crashing at all.

It typically seems to lock up after performing an action, such as changing to another tab or pressing the back button. I'm not using any extensions or addons. What gives?

[FlipGuy]

Mine crashes about 1/3 of the times I choose "save link as." I haven't disabled extenstions (add-ons), though. I use Linux.

[alltherage23]

Firefox crashes for me when I visit officepools.com. I am in a few pools and when I close one pool and open another, it freezes. Restoring the session doesn't work either...

[Mooky]

I too updated to Firefox 2.0 and still have problems with crashes. I had them a lot in the previous version of FF and it still crashes when I am just browsing. I created a new profile and updated the add ons, but it still does it. For example, it crashed when playing solitaire on pogo.com. Then I relaunched FF and t came up with the start new session or load previous sesion. Even when I clicked start new session, it loaded the previous session. Then when loading pogo, it just stat there not doing anything so I closed FF. Then I got the good ol' Firefox is currently running on your system. Please close the current session or restart your system message. I was hoping that would be fixed in FF 2.0, but I guess it isn't. I have talked to some of my friends on Yahoo, who said they have the same problem. Also in FF 2.0 and the previous version, loading images on some sites take forever. I can view a site and the images load fine and then I can go to the same site a min or 2 later and half the images do not load. On some sites I have to right click and click view image to even see the image, then go back to the site and most of the time after refreshing the site it works, but not on all images to show at once like it should. I read about a memory leak problem that is probably the cause of the crashes, but not sure what the cause is for the slow loading of images. I went to the same sites using IE7 and the images load fast like they should. Is there any fix fr this?

[insure_it]

I'm getting the "crash" problem as well. It never happened until I upgraded to ver 2. Just to be clear here is what I get...

When I open firefox (Yes even in safe mode) after a system boot I usually get stuck on the second or third webpage I have browsed to. I then have to close firefox, open the task manager and close it as well there, and reopen and try again.

I do get an alert some of the time saying there has been a memory leak but not all the time. It seams however that firefox never fully closes by it self.

Any ideas??

[FlipGuy]

http://img303.imageshack.us/img303/632/ ... hotro2.png

I guess it is nice that FF 2.0 incorporates the extenstion for restoring the session. It would be nicer if it didn't crash all the time. That's what we get for using any software called *.0! I am sure the crew are hard at work trying to fix the bugs and we should be patient. Like hell if I am going to use 2.0 on my business box, though!

Edit: changed "*.o" to "*.0." I am sure you all got the idea, though.

[mooky]

I hope they are working on a fix for this, but even in the last version this has been happening. They should have fixed this before the 2.0 release.

[happydidi]

i guess i am not the only one suffers from this "keep crashing" issue. i have had over 5 tabs open, when i tried to close one by clicking on the "X", it just crashed. i tried to restore the session several times and close different tab, or do different things: such as click on a link, same thing happened. then i tried to restart a new session, it didn't open the browser. i had to end task or reboot to have it work again. i don't have any add-ons, neither any themes installed.

[CrashCity]

After downloading the new firefox 2 I have had more crashes in the last 2 days then the previous version ever. The problem seemed to be caused by tabbed browsing. Is there anyway to permanently turn off tabbed browsing until Firefox 2 has been made stable enough for general use? Or if thats not possible can I downgrade to the previously more stable version of Firefox without losing all my bookmarks and settings?

[0rgan_grinder]

I am using version 1.5.07 and am repeatedly getting the 'Firefox has encountered a problem' message, after which the programme shuts down. Happened twice in the last hour.