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    Firefox Crashes

    Hi guys,

    I have installed Firefox 1.5 when it came out. Everything was fine up to a couple of weeks ago when it started crashing every time I download something. Any file I try to save on my hard drive make it crash, the firefox and windows repport error form appears and that is it. I have to download thing with IE or Opera at the moment, which is not something I particularly like as Firefox is my default browser.

    I have of course uninstalled and reinstalled it with a fresh download, but the problem is still there!

    Any ideas?

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    Uninstall all your extensions and then try again.
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    Also, try creating a new profile...

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    Thank you for your help, I have done this and it now works perfectly, I don't what's got into it!

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    Firefox crashes too often, its why i switched to Opera, it really is better.

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    generally, crash problems i have with firefox are actually the fault of a plugin - flash more often than not

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    And it uses alot of yor ram!

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    tried upgragding to 1.5.0.1? Fix most of my problems.

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    crashes with pdf documents
    crashes with multiple tabs and one of the tabs playing a video
    crashes with multiple tabs
    crashes then won't let you open it again because it says it's already running
    eats all your memory

    the version before 1.5 was fine.

    /posted with flock

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    What virus scanner do you have running?
    What OS + Build you on?

    I had some strange issues with McAffee, but tbh i don't think it was their fault, FF seams to have more leaks than the gardian.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Quote Originally Posted by DeludedGuy
    Firefox crashes too often, its why i switched to Opera, it really is better.
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    One of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of FF is that it's open source.

    On the plus side I can customise it to the nth degree and get it to suit how I browse (and I love it for this)

    On the minus side I can customise it to the nth degree and find some of those extensions etc are incompatible or make things unstable.

    The trick is to find out what works. I very very rarely have any trouble at all with FF. The only thing I can remember happening was a crash whilst browsing but after closing and re-opening the app i had all the pages I was browsing up so no real problem there.

    I use 1.5.0.1.

    Edit: It also swallows a massive 53,000k of memory (current) good lord get rid of it now!! Infact i think I will remove svchost.exe (23,000k) and explorer.exe (20,000k) aswell because this is hogging ram. I only have 1GB of ram so I need all the performace gains i can get. Sheesh.
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    Open up a few tabs and thats up to 83,000k. Good thing I got 1.5Gb Ram

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    From my experience, Flash seems to be the culprit of most, if not all, of my Firefox crashes. I generally use Seamonkey for browsing (it has never crashed), which doesn't have Flash installed, and then open up Firefox if I want to watch some Flash.

    As for Firefox eating up too much memory, there are plenty of lightweight browsers to try: Lynx, Links, Elinks, w3m...
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    no problem with it eating memory in all honesty, just wouldnt use it on an older system perhaps...

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