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Is it just me or is Firefox 3 crashing all the time?

By Richard Kim - Jun. 18, 2008

Its been less than 24 hours since I started using this - slick interface and much faster (THANK GOD!) than 2.0 but it keeps crashing - this has happened 4 times already.

Anyone else experiencing this issue?


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  1. By an anonymous user on Jun. 19, 2008

    Works fine for me. Try uninstalling all previouse versions of FF then a fresh install of FF3.


    Don't forget to back-up your bookmarks!


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  2. By Mia Nagata on Jun. 19, 2008

    I just installed FF 3 and it works like a charm. The bookmarks, saved passwords, and even the Browsing History data migrated seamlessly.


    Uninstall and be sure to reinstall 3.0 - you wont regret it! :)


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  3. By an anonymous user on Jun. 19, 2008

    I keep crashing using FX3 on my vista-32 bit system. It is driving me nuts, had to resort to IE to use the internet.


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  4. By an anonymous user on Jun. 19, 2008

    It has crashed a fair few times, something that rarely happened in the previous version has happened three times in the last 24 hours. i hope they fix it soon


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  5. By an anonymous user on Jun. 19, 2008

    it has crashed over 50 times for me, i only downloaded it 24 hours ago!! might have to do a fresh install. firefox 2 never crashed for me.


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  6. By an anonymous user on Jun. 19, 2008

    Ya mines been crashing like crazy, I'm going on the second day of use. Its crashing probably like 3-4 times a day and I'm on it most of the day. Does anyone know whats going on??


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  7. By Glenn Wilson on Jun. 19, 2008

    I'm not sure if you guys are using the same product because I'm loving every moment I spend on 3.0. Maybe its a Windows thing :)


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  8. By Richard Kim on Jun. 20, 2008

    Here's another post I found about this - http://techdigest.tv/2008/06/is_firefox_3_cr.html - it seems like I'm not the only one...


    I have reinstalled it and it seems to have fixed the problem for now


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  9. By an anonymous user on Jun. 20, 2008

    FF3 is also CRASHING on me ALL THE TIME! This is nuts. Running in either XP-Pro SP2 or Vista-32 or Vista-64, its crashing regularly on all three machines.


    I'm going back to FF2 until they work out the bugs!


    bummer.


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  10. By an anonymous user on Jun. 21, 2008

    it happened to me as well..

    and it was so annoying!

    i think you have to install it and delete all your personal data, (yes that means bookmarks, skins, addons, etc)

    but once you do that and install it again, then it should work.


    =D


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  11. By an anonymous user on Jun. 21, 2008

    yeah, about the last post, i meant uninstall, not install..

    sorry~


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  12. By an anonymous user on Jun. 23, 2008

    I have also been frustrated with Firefox3 and until its been sorted I have switched to Maxthon2. Its a nice feel to it.


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  13. By an anonymous user on Jun. 23, 2008

    Don't believe the hype around FF 3 - it isn't all that...


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  14. By an anonymous user on Jun. 26, 2008

    I installed it in a fresh windows XP installation and it crashes almost every time I use it. Very disappointing!

    On the other hand it never crashes in my Ubuntu 8.04 installation on the same pc!


    I don't know what's going on...


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  15. By Jon King on Jun. 26, 2008

    That should tell you something about windows XP! :)


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  16. By an anonymous user on Jul. 10, 2008

    Same thing. I have XP. Firefox 2 never crashed. 3 is crashing about 15 times a day! Especially when gmail loads up.


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  17. By an anonymous user on Jul. 16, 2008

    Firefox & Skype - 2 of the best apps out there - have been crashing profusely since I upgraded them recently. Anyone else having similar issues?


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  18. By an anonymous user on Jul. 16, 2008

    It was crashing alot in my XP box, but I reinstalled and now it works fine


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  19. By an anonymous user on Jul. 17, 2008

    Firefox 3.0.1 for the Mac is out! Download this - I just did and it actually seems to be running a LOT faster and hasn't crashed as yet...


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  20. By an anonymous user on Jul. 19, 2008

    I have 3.0.1 running on XP and it is crashing left and right. For some reason right now it crashes everytime I try to access the Nero website. I've seen so many similar posts while looking around the web in frustration, and it seems to be a problem regardless of the OS you are using. Mozilla fell short with getting this thing properly tested.


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  21. By an anonymous user on Jul. 24, 2008

    I cant believe I am saying this, but I cant wait for IE8 especially how much FF3 crashes. Its truely sad cause I was hoping to have it be my end all web browser. Opera runs nice, but the pages dont load the same or have support for browser pluggins like RoboForm. Hey FireFox team EAT A D*CK, tired of your Uber browser crashing all the time.. And I know it crashes a shit ton on all platforms.. including Mac


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  22. By an anonymous user on Jul. 24, 2008

    The "Download Embedded" add-on has emerged as a major cause of problems for FF3. If you have this extension, UNINSTALL "Download Embedded" from FireFox.


    Scores of people, including myself have seen an immediate end to the crashing and utter frustration we encountered after the launch of FF3, just as soon as we uninstalled this poisonous extension.


    They continue to offer the add-on through the Mozilla site, but they need to pull the thing until the author has time to properly resolve whatever inherent issues are causing the crashes. The add-on worked fine with the second generation of FireFox, but until they fix this bug, it's like a death sentence for FF3.


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  23. By Bashar Abdullah on Jul. 25, 2008

    It was working fine since day of release. Only today it crashed twice successively :(


    Hope it's only accedental. Firefox 3 has really been amazing since it's release


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  24. By an anonymous user on Aug. 01, 2008

    I'm using xp and the firefox 2 did really fine for me until it doesn't open anymore so I uninstalled it and got the ff3, but now it keeps on crashing all the time, I think every 80 secs. I have read in the other forums that it maybe the cause of the flash player, I upgraded the flash player and until now it didn't crash. I hope this solved the problem.


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  25. By an anonymous user on Aug. 21, 2008

    Usually it work's just fine but, today it has already crashed 2 times om my CPU :/

    Don't know what might be the problem.


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  26. By demi on Aug. 21, 2008

    Yes, usually it works fine, but sometimes crashes....


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  27. By blaze on Aug. 22, 2008

    It works very good for me, both on Windows and Linux. I'm suggest you to see on your installed plugins list, maybe some of this plugin is unstable with new Firefox.


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  28. By an anonymous user on Aug. 22, 2008

    Mine is not crashing but it keep ask me to install flash player at least once a week! WTF?


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  29. By Dato Yuan on Aug. 28, 2008

    my ff3 crash


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  30. By kan guo on Aug. 28, 2008

    it happened to me as well.


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  31. By an anonymous user on Aug. 28, 2008

    Not crashing, per se, but hanging on XP -- the display will stop being refreshed, leaving old junk from other tabs, etc., showing. Then I have to restart it to clear it up. Also, it sometimes goes out to lunch and never comes back, sucking up CPU and requiring that I use TaskManager to kill it.


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  32. By lin quan on Aug. 28, 2008

    about the last post, i meant uninstall, not install..


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  33. By Kecheri Puzha on Aug. 29, 2008

    if i visit lifehacker.com it crashes!


    I have tried uninstalling and re-installing. But the problem persists. FF2 never crashed for me.


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  34. By Jason Mei on Aug. 30, 2008

    I'm using windows 2008, firefox3, everything is fine.


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  35. By Kecheri Puzha on Aug. 30, 2008

    Hey! I think I found a solution.


    Try updating your java runtime environment.


    My firefox has stopped crashing after I update my JRE.


    To do this, visit http://www.java.com and click on Free Java Download button.


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  36. By china long on Aug. 30, 2008

    no feel


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  37. By qian donghui on Sep. 02, 2008

    Yes,also too


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  38. By an anonymous user on Sep. 12, 2008

    Firefox 3.0.1 crashes on me about 5 to 10 times per day. Using Vista Home Premium. I'm a web developer doing lots of ajax, flash and shockwave. Never had any crashes EVER with FF2 but FF3 is so buggy it kills me. Hmm what browser to try next?


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  39. By an anonymous user on Sep. 12, 2008

    I've had lots of crashes with FF3. Tried lots of suggestions but nothing seemed to work. Then I installed XP sp3.


    I have had only 1 crash since then but I am sure I caused that crash by leaving my laptop on a soft pillow. It predictably overheated and crashed.


    If you're experiening crashes running XP and have not installed sp3 I suggest you give it a try.


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  40. By an anonymous user on Sep. 14, 2008

    it crashes all the timr, guess i an switching bowser.. really annoying


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  41. By an anonymous user on Sep. 22, 2008

    Thanks for the comment of 12th Sept. Will try getting SP3.


    Firefox 3 is crashing an enormous amount. Especially from Gmail and Youtube and Facebook. So it's related to more complex sites I think that use AJAX.


    Pretty bad timing for Firefox because this opens the door for people to switch to Chrome or go back to the latest MSIE.


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  42. By an anonymous user on Oct. 01, 2008

    Constantly crashes, bot on my XP box and my Ubuntu 8.04 box. Seems to be happen mostly on websites using flash.


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  43. By an anonymous user on Oct. 01, 2008

    crashing 5 times a day at least never happened before 3.0

    also just got a vista comp. so maybe that is part of problem but i cant stand it


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  44. By an anonymous user on Oct. 02, 2008

    Crashing A LOT. almost every time I click on a PDF link, but also on Ajax pages, Java pages, or basically anything a little more complex that HTML1.0. I'm no lambda user, I'm a heavy user but that's not an excuse.


    Frankly I was so amazed by FF2 which never crashed with up to 20-30 tabs open at the same time and a good dozen of add-ons of all sort.


    I am very disappointed by FF3. It is obvious that it wasn't tested properly before going out. This is the kind of method Microsoft uses. I expect Mozilla to be a bit more professional.


    What I find even more disappointing is the total lack of recognizing from Mozilla about this issue. Just type "firefox crash all the time" in google and see how many users are affected.


    I want to see a clear page on Mozilla's web saying "Troubleshooting Mozilla Crashes" where we could submit dumps, and find a FAQ, and a list of situations, web pages, add-ons, etc that are known to cause crashing.


    Clipper


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  45. By an anonymous user on Oct. 02, 2008

    Hey, you know what ? that page I'm talking about actually exists. It's not of exceptional help but good as a start. Didn't find it a few months ago.


    http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+crashes


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  46. By an anonymous user on Oct. 13, 2008

    Post number 22 seemed to fix the crashing problem for me. Thanks, whoever you are.


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  47. By jin hua on Oct. 16, 2008

    I keep crashing using FX3 on my vista-32 bit system. It is driving me nuts, had to resort to IE to use the internet.


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  48. By qingzhu kong on Oct. 16, 2008

    many people just down it but never use it .I just use it to debug the javascipt.In fact it's slowly when it was install many plugis.


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  49. By an anonymous user on Nov. 07, 2008

    No need to reinstall your firefox 3

    Just simply use this command in the "Run Box" (Start/Run)


    "c:\program files\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe" -P


    Then, a profile table will appear which you should create a new profile, apart from the current "default" one. Then Start your firefox again on that new profile, you'll find that you're having a totally new firefox without any uninstallation.


    Hope this help.

    Cheers


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  50. By an anonymous user on Nov. 08, 2008

    Yes, my FF crashing alot too. Switched back to IE and it crashes even more! Does anyone have an explanation? 11/08


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  51. By an anonymous user on Nov. 23, 2008

    i have (un) and (re) installed 2 times with no luck, it still crashes ever 15 minutes


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