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Does your Firefox 3 crash all the time too? Print E-mail
Monday, 07 July 2008

I was of the nearly 8 million people who downloaded firefox 3, only now i kinda wish I hadn't.

I've kept a tally, in the last week i'm averaging 3 crashes a day. Am I alone in this?

Luckily the restore session function works really well... but frankly, the user experience sucks

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written by Ben Kepes, July 06, 2008
I wouldn't say all the time - it's reasonably stable for me

still a bit of a memory hog (although I do regularly have a dozen or more tabs open)
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written by Aaron, July 07, 2008
Not recently. I had the occaisonal crash during the betas but none on the final.

Agree its a still a bush-pig in terms of memory usage with lots of tabs.
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yes .. it does for me too!!
written by hasen, July 08, 2008
firefox 3 crashes all the time for me, I'm running Vista Ultimate on a Tablet PC .. (don't know if the "tablet pc" part is related to the bug?)
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written by Paul, July 08, 2008
I'm on a tablet as well. Perhaps its that that is causing all the issues?
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possible fix ..
written by hasen, July 08, 2008
I read somewhere after some googling a suggestion by someone, find the ffox installation directory, go to the extensions folder, you'll find a folder inside it with random numbers and a file inside it called "install" dot something.
delete this directory (the numbers)

don't know if it helps, I did it about 3 hours ago and so far no crash yet, but this is not enough time to judge it!
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written by Paul, July 08, 2008
Thanks hasen, i'll give it a try
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nvm that, use firefox portable
written by hasen, July 15, 2008
actually deleting that folder didn't solve anything!

Here's a better fix: download firefox portable. (you can export/import your bookmarks, and if you install an addon you can also import/export your saved passwords)

Now it's much better, but it still crashes now and then. but much better than before.
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written by hasen, July 17, 2008
look here:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-...ablet_PCs

"On some Tablet PCs, Firefox will crash suddenly. This is a known bug and is fixed in Firefox 3.0.1"
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written by Paul, July 20, 2008
Thanks Again
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written by Paul, July 23, 2008
Hasen, great fix. appreciate your efforts here. not one crash since!
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written by z, October 04, 2008
im on a laptop and it crashes a ton for me too. back to internet explorer unfortunately.
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written by Paul, October 05, 2008
Hi Z,

I found the fix outlined above worked but I ended up with other issues from FF. I'm currently a very happy Safari user.

Cheers
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Me Too!
written by ArkyMark, June 27, 2010
This has been happening several times a day for me to - and FF used to be the most stable thing out there! It's getting frustrating as hell! smilies/angry.gif

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