Firefox has stoped working

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Hi, anyone having this problem with thier latest version of FF?

Firefox has stoped working

A program caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
 
Has happened to me at least 3 times a day lately. Earlier, it wouldnt allow me to right click on anything and then opened all new sites as blank, black pages - no data. It also froze my laptop and I was forced to restart - twice!
 
Maelly said:
Hi, anyone having this problem with thier latest version of FF?

Firefox has stoped working

A program caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
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There's yer problem
 
DJStealth said:
Has happened to me at least 3 times a day lately. Earlier, it wouldnt allow me to right click on anything and then opened all new sites as blank, black pages - no data. It also froze my laptop and I was forced to restart - twice!
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My laptop's also been freezing for no reason, so frustrating! Wasn't sure what it was but it must be FF3 then.
 
It does that about three times a day and I have to restart it! I thought FF was supposed to solve all my browsing problems (IE7 always gives me an error message when I access my Google Mail, and I really dont digg Opera).

Whats next now?
 
Maelly said:
It does that about three times a day and I have to restart it! I thought FF was supposed to solve all my browsing problems (IE7 always gives me an error message when I access my Google Mail, and I really dont digg Opera).

Whats next now?
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Flock or Opera.
 
Hotmail no longer works in this new version, my trackitdown basket was completely removed after 4 weeks of collecting new music and storing it there until I felt like downloading it and the errors are persistent, annoying and causing me grief! I now have to scour through another 1000 songs to pick the 40 I had in my basket again!
 
Ok, this may come out wrong and sound like another linux/windows thing, but sofar everybody complaining about FF crashes or memory leaks have one thing in common: Windows. Maybe that could be your problem? dll clash or something, somewhere?

I couldn't say though. Don't have a windows pc to test it on, and not going to infect one of my boxes with it either. But running it on both OpenSuse10.3 and ubuntu8.04 and stable on both
 
Gru said:
Ok, this may come out wrong and sound like another linux/windows thing, but sofar everybody complaining about FF crashes or memory leaks have one thing in common: Windows. Maybe that could be your problem? dll clash or something, somewhere?

I couldn't say though. Don't have a windows pc to test it on, and not going to infect one of my boxes with it either. But running it on both OpenSuse10.3 and ubuntu8.04 and stable on both
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Seems that if FF2 was stable for me on the same laptop, same OS, then FF are the ones who have cocked up and it is a bug THEY need to fix in the enw release. It doesnt seem like a Microsoft issue for a change...
 
DJStealth said:
Seems that if FF2 was stable for me on the same laptop, same OS, then FF are the ones who have cocked up and it is a bug THEY need to fix in the enw release. It doesnt seem like a Microsoft issue for a change...
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Agreed, the only change has been FF3. FF3 made windows crash constantly for me a couple of days ago, explorer.exe was crashing every 5 seconds so I couldn't do anything, had to do a system restore from safe mode.

Btw, you also running Vista DJ?
 
Syndyre said:
Agreed, the only change has been FF3. FF3 made windows crash constantly for me a couple of days ago, explorer.exe was crashing every 5 seconds so I couldn't do anything, had to do a system restore from safe mode.

Btw, you also running Vista DJ?
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On my other laptop I am running Vista, on this one I am running XP Pro. The issues I mentioned have been a combination of both OS's and the only common element between the 2 is the update to FF3...
 
Hmmm... Maybe I could be useful here...

Just not give Portable Firefox 3 a shot since it will be independent by itself...
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Just one thing... Set the Firefox Cache up a bit :)

Tools --> Options---> Advanced --> Network --> Offline storage

Default: Use up to [0] MBs a cache
My settings: Use up to [500] MBs a cache
 
DJStealth said:
On my other laptop I am running Vista, on this one I am running XP Pro. The issues I mentioned have been a combination of both OS's and the only common element between the 2 is the update to FF3...
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And the microsoft operating system it's running on :D

(yes ok, that was the linux fanboi in me that said it)
 
Thanks TIAL. Have upped the cache settings - will see if that helps but at the time that it has given me hiccups I had only a few sites open - although FF was open for some time. Does it store all cached data until you close?
 
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