Anyone else having FF issues of late?

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Anyone else having FF issues of late?

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I've been noticing a lot more crashes with Firefox of late (minimum of once/day). I can't pin it down to any paticular upgrade, but the oh-so-helpful "This program crashed, send report to Microsoft?" box keeps claiming it's an issue with the xpcom_core.dll, so I don't think it has anything to do with any of my extensions. For the record, I'm running 2.0.0.7 with Redshift v2.0; I have speed dial, firebug, yslow, web developer, colorzilla, and mouse guestures.

I'm not really looking for product support, just to see if anyone else is having issues...

EDIT: It crashed again, so I was able to get the actual name of the .dll that windows was blaming.
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Windows versions have seemed to be more unstable as of late. My mother complains to me about them.

I'm blissful in Mac-ville. :)
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I run Ubuntu all day for 8+hrs, and Firefox crashes at least 5 times a day.

I am beginning to think i need to format though, because ive started using linux in June, and haven't formated since. I still have all the crud from when i was learning.

Ok.. so its more like 10 times a day, but i usually have at least 3 Virtual Desktops, each with at least one Firefox open, and then Multiple tabs in each. I <3 multitasking.
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feyd wrote:Windows versions have seemed to be more unstable as of late. My mother complains to me about them.

I'm blissful in Mac-ville. :)
I'd love to join you, but this is at work :roll:

Guess it's back over to Opera for a bit.
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It it's been crashing for me as well. Also I've been getting this strange bug, where the enter and tab buttons stop working and it only works when I hold shift with them? :?
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I haven't been having any problems at all. I've got a laundry list of 14 add-ons installed including some you mentioned: YSlow, Firebug, Web Developer & ColorZilla.
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Quicktime kills FF for me - I have to pay close attention to filetypes I click on, since an MP3 or non-flash video will kill it.

If it weren't for my iPod/Phone I would replace iTunes JUST to get rid of quicktime. Worst media system ever. well.... after Real died anyway.
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I have been having troubles too. When I watch videos on tv-links.co.uk and I close a video window, I have to force quite the browser and reopen it sometimes. I am thinking of switching to opera.

ps. If you havn't checked out tv-links, for the love of god do so.
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shiznatix wrote:I have been having troubles too. When I watch videos on tv-links.co.uk and I close a video window, I have to force quite the browser and reopen it sometimes. I am thinking of switching to opera.

ps. If you havn't checked out tv-links, for the love of god do so.
Something on tv-links crashes safari too. I suspect it's got something to do with crappy Flash code.
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Post by onion2k »

Yep. I've been noticing it too. I suspect a plugin is to blame though because it's a while since FF itself updated. I also have firebug, yslow, and web developer installed so maybe it's one of those.

YSlow updated this morning .. I wonder if that's a sign.
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Oh, well if it is a flash problem then I would say that I don't have any problems with FF recently. Hooray
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Been fine here, both on 64bit Gentoo, and 32bit win xp on Vmware. More than I can say for Safari on WinXP though, unfortunately.
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

FF after last update (what, two weeks ago?) no problems worth noting. Lots of extensions, crashes maybe once a week on Windows Vista and just shuts down without error (which I could care less about) but otherwise sings along for days at a time...
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Kieran Huggins wrote:Quicktime kills FF for me - I have to pay close attention to filetypes I click on, since an MP3 or non-flash video will kill it.
You can change (in Firefox's options) the default settings for handling mp3 and video links. :)

My Firefox has been freezing from time to time as well.. two or three times per day, maybe. But that could be because I tend to multitask-- working on my game, reading/posting on forums, watching music videos on YouTube. And also could be because this is my laptop that I've been using (my desktop PC is not functioning at the moment.. I think it's the video card's fault, but I don't have a spare [AGP up to 8x] card to try out to see if that's it-- the primary hard drive was also getting faulty, too).
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My only gripe with FF is memory usage. I have curbed that by spreading the load across four browsers. Anything Ajax intensive goes to Opera. Anything that needs to load fast goes to IE. Anything that I feel doesn't belong in IE, Opera or FF goes to Safari. The rest goes to FF. This keeps FF peak memory usage to a reasonable 250MB by the end of the day.
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