Serious bug? Is gmarks causing catastropic vista crashes?

[ekbworldwide]

The only recent changes I've made to firefox

= I installed 3.0.5, but it didn't work, safe mode didn't work,
profile manager didn't work - so I rolled back to 3.0.4
after that...
= I installed the new beta of gmarks (a few days ago)
= I installed The newest noscript (yesterday?)

After going back to 3.0.4 everything was fine until today.

I've had severe problems with firefox today - the worst ever. Firefox
froze, it froze vista, the mouse was disabled, ctrl-alt-del didn't
work, the on/off switch of the computer didn't work. I literally had
to pull the plug on my computer.

About ten minutes ago firefox froze again - I scrambled to get to task
manager to kill the process - and it said that firefox was using
nearly 2 GB of ram.

I tried to post this with firefox - but yet again - the same thing
happened. Firefox froze and by the time I could kill the process it
was using up nearly 2 GB of ram again.

I had to post this with explorer - yuck.

[Chris]

Move the folder for each extension out of the C:/Documents and Settings/[user]/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/profiles/[gibberish].[profile] (for XP, roughly; may be different on Vista) folder to a backup location, one at a time, until Firefox works.  Which extension makes the difference?  (If this is too dangerous, I don't know what to do...)

[ekbworldwide]

> Move the folder for each extension out of the C:/Documents and
> Settings/[user]/Application
> Data/Mozilla/Firefox/profiles/[gibberish].[profile] (for XP, roughly; may be
> different on Vista) folder to a backup location, one at a time, until
> Firefox works.  Which extension makes the difference?  (If this is too
> dangerous, I don't know what to do...)

I kept things simple.

I started up firefox, disabled gmarks quickly as possible, restarted.
Everything is okay now. Right now - I want no problems. Within a few
hours I'll reinstall the older beta.

Oh, I entirely forgot one more thing I did.

= Java. I installed the newest update to java - I think I have version
6 update 11 - anyway - it's the newest update. I think I installed it
about 20 hours ago or so.

Is it possible that there's a java / gmarks conflict?

[ekbworldwide]

I'm now running Version 0.9.10b4.

For the first time after firefox crashed I got an "Data Execution
Prevention" error.

I hope other people post in this thread. I'm starting to wonder if my
firefox is free of viruses and why I'm having these problems.

[Chris]

In case no one else does post, I encourage you to ask also at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38&sid=7521b5449754fdf6fa5fc08ec81a2e44 since it seems to not be specific to GMarks.

Chris