Firefox 3 constantly crashing ... am I alone?

[mr_sandman]

I'm not sure what's up with the latest version, but the browser is constantly crashing on me! I would like to know if I'm alone on this? Are there others with similar problems and how have you managed with it?

The problem has only been with Firefox 3, never the earlier versions...is it possible to get older versions of the browser? I'm actually ready to switch back to IE right about now :(

[TheFuteballer]

Firefox 3 still has issues with pages that run some sorts of javascript.. if you go on a site that has javascript, after you close the browser, it will crash

they should be fixing it soon though and that seems to be the core of pretty much all of their crashes but I agree that it is annoying

[mr_sandman]

great .... well, I'm going to switch over to IE7 for the next little while I guess.
Thanks for the info.

[Frankie3s]

No problems here FF3 has been awesome. Try uninstalling and then reinstalling.

http://animepodcast.org/d/firefoxwalls/fire/BlazeMe.jpg

[Amourek]

I've been using FF3 for the last couple of weeks now - love it! Hasn't crashed on me once, supports all my old extensions, great search/autocomplete, great password management. 2 erect thumbs up.

[ShadowVlican]

No problems here FF3 has been awesome. Try uninstalling and then reinstalling.

http://animepodcast.org/d/firefoxwalls/fire/BlazeMe.jpg
:arrowu:

[CH40Z_008]

I'm not sure what's up with the latest version, but the browser is constantly crashing on me! I'm not even sure why ... but I would like to know if I'm alone on this? Are there others with similar problems and how have you managed with it?

The problem has only been with Firefox 3, never the earlier versions...is it possible to get older versions of the browser? I'm actually ready to switch back to IE right about now :(

ur not alone... my bro having this problem also on his laptop (vista64) using FF3, we installed firefox3 with built in yahoo toolbar a couple of hours ago and so far so good ...

[NDman]

Are you using Windows XP? I used to have the similar problem, especially with sites that are Java-heavy. I tried reinstalling and all but nothing worked. Did some goolging and I found out it was XP's SP3. I reverted back to SP2 and everything is fine. Never a problem since.

Try to roll back to SP2 and see if it improves the situation

[da_majic_maker]

Well you could always use Opera:cheesygri

Ya ok, it takes "a lil" to get used to, i admit,(not bad though) but i totally think it is worth it, it seems soooo archaic when i have to go back to Firefox, or Ugggghhh Explorer(ewwww) .

You get 9 windows to put your favorite websites in, and when your opera home page opens, just click any of the 9 preset and your there, soooo nice, kinda lazy though:cheesygri

Mehhh well, put Returnil on,and anything you do while it is on is gone anyway :D, another program i totally love "thats free" !

Id suggest going to Majorgeeks.com and getting them, as they seem clean from there,(make sure you take the right ones,its pretty easy though).

Also Adaware and A Squared,(among others) is right up there on my reccomended list to, but hey cant tell ya all my secrets right:cheesygri

[da_majic_maker]

Ohhh just thought id mention that Opera "does not" seem happy with AOL games, should you want to go there, mind you, neither does Firefox though, just Explorer seems to like it,maybe its just my comp, but i dont think so, anyway... hope there was something usefull for someone! :cheesygri

[tsatsa]

I have no problem with my FF3 running on Vista since it came out, and last week I updated to 3.0.1, it run fine too.

[Menace]

Yes, it does crash but not constantly. I have a Vista Business and Windows XP Pro at work, Vista Home on my laptop and Windows XP Pro on the desktops at home. It crashes much less on my Toshiba laptop.

I'm not sure what's up with the latest version, but the browser is constantly crashing on me! I'm not even sure why .

[gordholio]

I have no problems with Firefox 3. I changed the about:blank settings so the location bar would not show the history. That's the only thing I don't like - the location bar drop-down history.

[mr_sandman]

I'm running XP w/ SP2 on an Compaq laptop with Athon64...one of the great things I liked about Firefox to IE7 was it saved all the pages and restored them when it crashed. But with Firefox3, when I restore session some of the toolbars are missing and the tabs don't open up seperately, rather one tab would open and others would be available through the "List all tabs" drop down.

thanks for linking to the old Firefox versions, I'm going back to v2...

[DrLee]

No problems whatsoever. I was even running it from my second OS without registry issues heh (except for flash player). Java has had a major update recently though, you might try wiping both firefox and your java installation and starting fresh. The problem appears to be so random that I am betting it is the java installation. Hopefully the mozilla guys can patch it up to mitigate whatever the exception the browser has with it.

[Topher]

I'm running FF3 as a U3 app every day and haven't had any issues.

[floe32]

I'm using FF3 at work on a Vista Business machine as well as at home on a XP machine with a centrino chipset.

At work, the browser functions fine. No issues.

At home, it crashes all the time. Every time it does, I submit the error report to mozilla and hope that they can figure it out. I haven't been able to discern any trend whatsoever. I'd say it crashes once every couple hours which is quite frustrating. At least it restores all the tabs reasonably well. FYI, this has been happening since the beta for me. No resolution with updates.

So no, you are not alone.

[cdnNick]

It was always crashing on my vista ultimate 64 PC, I went back to ver 2, until they start fixing some bugs. I might try the latest release.

I'd switch to opera or safari before ever going back to IE.

[langong]

my ver 3.01 crashed if I was in Yahoo or MSN , IE also crashed but not as often as FF.

[skwan]

Good thing I saved the install file of Firefox 2.0
Have the version 2.16 or something when I did an update, because when I tried out Firefox 3 on my T60 with 3GB of RAM, it still crashed...plus the layout looks too...VISTA LIKE...so ya, Firefox 2 ALL THE WAY

[Firefoxer]

One crash so far on a very bad site with a lot of JavaScript crap that I enabled on Noscript.

You can download Firefox 2.0.0.16 through this link:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0.0.16&os=win&lang=en-US

[aplayaz2000]

Well just this morning when I was on a forum it loaded and looked like it was going to crash after 5 sec. But goes back to normal.

[B0000rt]

Crashes atleast 4-5 times a day at home, but the restore session thing is handy. Doesn't crash here at work though, both using 3.0.1

[jeremyv]

No issues here either.

I;m using it on my Desktop with AMD Athlon 64 dual core and with only 1 GB Ram. Same thing with my Acer Aspire One.

So far I think its better than Firefox 2.

[zero_2003]

Crashes atleast 4-5 times a day at home, but the restore session thing is handy.

+1

But ever since I upgrade to v3.1, the crashes happen less often.

[belgiangenius]

FF3 has been a complete crash-fest for me too.

[Jin-n-Juice]

I had FF3 crash on me for the first time when I went to Evite, and kept crashing everytime I went. Odd.

[huthut]

Firefox 3 still has issues with pages that run some sorts of javascript.. if you go on a site that has javascript, after you close the browser, it will crash

they should be fixing it soon though and that seems to be the core of pretty much all of their crashes but I agree that it is annoying

+1

I cannot view the flyers @ Best Buy and Futureshop with Firefox 3. I get a Javascript error. I switched back to Firefox 2 and everything works fine again.

[woodstock827]

if Java heavy sites are giving u problems, try adding Ad-Block+...

I have XP-SP3 with FF3 at home and work, never crashed on me once...
FF2 used to crash sometimes when I open pdf, not with FF3..

[sfu_lifer]

You're not the only one.
On my XP and Vista tablets, FF3 crashes way more often than FF2. And I've uninstalled/reinstalled many times in hopes of trying to fix it.
For some reason, flock doesn't crash my browser even though it's basically just a FF shell.
With the mac though, FF3 has been stable.

[akbar_k]

Mehhh well, put Returnil on,and anything you do while it is on is gone anyway :D, another program i totally love "thats free" !

Id suggest going to Majorgeeks.com and getting them, as they seem clean from there,(make sure you take the right ones,its pretty easy though).

Also Adaware and A Squared,(among others) is right up there on my reccomended list to, but hey cant tell ya all my secrets right:cheesygri

Nice work, please share all your secrets! Interesting.

Also, FF3 is still beta, imho. Wait 6 months if you need stability, otherwise, have a ball and help out the community!

[B0000rt]

Nice work, please share all your secrets! Interesting.

Also, FF3 is still beta, imho. Wait 6 months if you need stability, otherwise, have a ball and help out the community!

I don't even think you know what Beta means if you say this...

[Firestorm ZERO]

I remember mine used to crash. But it turns out it was the Adobe Flash plug-in (must be some flash ad or something). After I upgraded to the latest, I no longer had crashes.

[rexrifle]

i am running windows vista ultimate and using ff3 and have no problems
its most prob. your virtual memory config. hope this helps

[akbar_k]

I don't even think you know what Beta means if you say this...

LOL I've been programming professionally for over 10 years. It takes time for software to mature, and FF3 is no exception.

[B0000rt]

LOL I've been programming professionally for over 10 years. It takes time for software to mature, and FF3 is no exception.

So XP is still in Beta? ;):lol:

[crackrabbit]

FF2 used to crash sometimes also..I installed FF3 since launch day and have yet to have it crash on anything. got XP SP3

[woof]

So XP is still in Beta? ;):lol:

No, Vista is still in beta :cheesygri

[movieman]

Works fine for me except on 64-bit Linux, where it randomly exits for no reason; but only if the display is on a 64-bit Linux machine, it will run for days if I run it with the display on a 32-bit Linux machine.

[kenyu28]

Come on guys, just install Firefox 2, until December when Mozilla drops it completely.

[gman]

Have FF3 in home and office, no problem with XP SP2, XP SP3, Linux, Win2K. So far, it does not crash even once. I guess I don't go to the web site you guys go. FF2 did crash a lot.

[gman]

LOL I've been programming professionally for over 10 years. It takes time for software to mature, and FF3 is no exception.

I am in the profession for 20 years now. Yes, it takes time for software to mature.
Yes, I am responsible to release software products including alpha, beta, trail, official release and patches.
No, FF3 is not beta.

[B0000rt]

No, Vista is still in beta :cheesygri

Vista has been more stable for me than XP ever was..

[kenyu28]

Vista > XP in stability? Not even, with the ton of driver support issues and crashes/ memory issues. Even if you compare first year XP and first year Vista, XP still comes out on top. (Maybe because people saw it as a major improvement from 2000).

[ASharp]

Vista > XP in stability? Not even, with the ton of driver support issues and crashes/ memory issues. Even if you compare first year XP and first year Vista, XP still comes out on top. (Maybe because people saw it as a major improvement from 2000).

Oh boy. :rolleyes:

I'm not gonna argue any side here but, I'm just gonna say that I've been using Vista on my main system for well over a year now and in my experience, compared to XP, it certainly isn't any less stable.

[akbar_k]

I am in the profession for 20 years now. Yes, it takes time for software to mature.
Yes, I am responsible to release software products including alpha, beta, trail, official release and patches.
No, FF3 is not beta.

Who cares what they call it. It's beta-quality. They released FF3 with the show-stopping fsync() bug on non-win32 platforms. What do you call that? Also, it sounds to me like you do software release management, is that right?

[gman]

Who cares what they call it. It's beta-quality. They released FF3 with the show-stopping fsync() bug on non-win32 platforms. What do you call that? Also, it sounds to me like you do software release management, is that right?

Software has bug. That is normal and you should know it. If you consider software that has bug is beta, oh well, most software are beta and my company would never release a product which is not a beta then. And, if
FF3 is considered beta, most released software would be alpha.

I do research, design, development, write code, porting, packaging, release, debug, fix bug, patch.
Management? Yes and no. I was forced to but not want to.
The only 2 things I don't do are technical support and talk to customer.
My main effort is technical.