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Anyone else having FF issues of late?
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:06 pm
by ReverendDexter
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:08 pm
by feyd
Windows versions have seemed to be more unstable as of late. My mother complains to me about them.
I'm blissful in Mac-ville.

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:15 pm
by Zoxive
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 12:27 pm
by ReverendDexter
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
Guess it's back over to Opera for a bit.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:29 pm
by JellyFish
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?

Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:44 pm
by pickle
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.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:58 pm
by Kieran Huggins
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:26 am
by shiznatix
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 2:44 am
by Chris Corbyn
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:48 am
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:49 am
by shiznatix
Oh, well if it is a flash problem then I would say that I don't have any problems with FF recently. Hooray
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:33 am
by Jenk
Been fine here, both on 64bit Gentoo, and 32bit win xp on Vmware. More than I can say for Safari on WinXP though, unfortunately.
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:09 am
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...
Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:35 pm
by Josh1billion
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).
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:52 am
by RobertGonzalez
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.