Firefox Crashes

Peter Smith

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Jun 6, 2008, 12:10:09 PM6/6/08

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Hi
Firefox crashes without warning.
It seams not to be the web page content.
Anyone else having this problem?

Pete

Tarkus

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Jun 6, 2008, 12:27:04 PM6/6/08

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Occasionally. Probably an extension or a conflict between extensions,
as I use quite a bunch of them. It doesn't happen often enough for me
to bother with troubleshooting, though.

Also, it's a good idea to shut down FF after some heavy use (at least
2.x; I'm not sure about FF3), because it tends to eat up your memory,
and it becomes less stable.

Chris Ilias

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Jun 6, 2008, 1:03:52 PM6/6/08

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On 6/6/08 12:10 PM, _Peter Smith_ spoke thusly:

> Firefox crashes without warning.
> It seams not to be the web page content.
> Anyone else having this problem?

Nope. :-)
But the solutions on the following page might help:
<http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Firefox+crashes>.

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Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
List-owner: support-firefox, support-thunderbird, test-multimedia

Grayson

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Jun 6, 2008, 3:23:34 PM6/6/08

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I never had crashes until I updated my Free AVG antivirus. That added
link scanner. I disabled link scanner and no more crashes.

Grayson

David McRitchie

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Jun 6, 2008, 4:28:18 PM6/6/08

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"Grayson" <jche...@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:aj3j44p1k9nuoi6fh...@4ax.com...

and if you want to have even more fun, so that you can create
additional profiles, Fx2 and/or Fx3 without having to disable
"AVG Safe Search" you have to go through a bit of a nuisance to
uninstall it -- almost deceptive using two different names for it
"Link Scanner" in the install and "AVG Safe Search" as the extension name.

to disable -- http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1253
to eliminate --
1338: How to install AVG without LinkScanner
http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1253

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#avgsafesearch

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David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

Peter Smith

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Jun 7, 2008, 5:27:49 AM6/7/08

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David McRitchie wrote:
> "Grayson" <jche...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:aj3j44p1k9nuoi6fh...@4ax.com...
>> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:10:09 +0100, Peter Smith
>> <petes...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> Firefox crashes without warning.
>>> It seams not to be the web page content.
>>> Anyone else having this problem?
>>>
>>> Pete
>>
>> I never had crashes until I updated my Free AVG antivirus. That added
>> link scanner. I disabled link scanner and no more crashes.
>
> and if you want to have even more fun, so that you can create
> additional profiles, Fx2 and/or Fx3 without having to disable
> "AVG Safe Search" you have to go through a bit of a nuisance to
> uninstall it -- almost deceptive using two different names for it
> "Link Scanner" in the install and "AVG Safe Search" as the extension name.
>
> to disable -- http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1253
> to eliminate -- 1338: How to install AVG without LinkScanner
> http://free.grisoft.com/ww.faq.num-1253
>
> http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm#avgsafesearch
>

Thanks,
AVG could well be the problem.
Pete.