Thread: Mozilla Firefox Crashing frequently ?

Originally Posted by scruffy

I am running Fedora Core 8 and the latest Firefox. My Firefox also crashes frequently. I started using Opera. It crashes, but less often. I do not know if it is the browsers or the ext3 file system. I was thinking about switching back to ext2.

I also use Noscript. I was wondering if I should disable it and see what happens.

You can mount ext3 partitions as ext2, since
there isn't much difference except for the
journaling in ext3. I highly doubt that your
filesystem type is your problem -- your file-
system itself is a different story. If you're
concerned, boot into single-user mode and
do a full fsck.

- Scott

Originally Posted by sebell

If you're
concerned, boot into single-user mode and
do a full fsck.- Scott

Hey ! Watch your language fellah

got FF with noscript and ad-block plus running on several pc's no issues a couple of XP sp3 boxes, Fedora 10, Ubuntu and even a Vista sp2 box, those are about the only 2 extensions I have on most of those boxes though, could it be any of your other extensions

I don't know Jim. Last night I sent Robin's post to my sys ad buddy to walk me through the procedure. He told me to right click on the desktop, click on 'run command' and type firefox - g and hit the return key. So firefox opened and it ran fine for the rest of the night with no crashes. I did the same thing this morning and so far so good. All this is supposed to do if I understood my sys ad friend correctly is enable me to send an accurate report in following a crash if it were to do so. So far so good as far as the stability goes. Knocking on wood.

EDIT; I didn't knock on wood hard enough, five minutes later it crashed.

I'm running both Ubuntu (Jaunty) and XP with firefox, without any problem.

glad it is working for you and hopefully will stay that way, one thing I noticed with certain Linux distros is Firefox won't update to newest version sometimes when it is available by going to menu bar> help>update firefox, instead you have to do it manually from mozilla site which if I remember isn't that hard at all

Originally Posted by mry314

I'm running both Ubuntu (Jaunty) and XP with firefox, without any problem.

For the last couple of years this box had a partition with XP with the dual boot into Linux. Both with Firefox as the browser of choice. I prefer linux to windows but due to the proprietary nature I liked having it when I needed or wanted to use it. So one morning I booted up in XP to find my Avast anti virus non functional. Long story short I had picked up a virus last time out and it also disabled the XP protections. So I overwrote the partition and the hell with Windows. The instability to the linux began at roughly the same time so perhaps the no good SOB that sent the virus somehow corrupted my linux ? I don't know if that is possible. A friend who is a systems administrator with 30 years experience says no.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

For the last couple of years this box had a partition with XP with the dual boot into Linux. Both with Firefox as the browser of choice. I prefer linux to windows but due to the proprietary nature I liked having it when I needed or wanted to use it. So one morning I booted up in XP to find my Avast anti virus non functional. Long story short I had picked up a virus last time out and it also disabled the XP protections. So I overwrote the partition and the hell with Windows. The instability to the linux began at roughly the same time so perhaps the no good SOB that sent the virus somehow corrupted my linux ? I don't know if that is possible. A friend who is a systems administrator with 30 years experience says no.

It is possible Jimmy, but exceedingly unlikely.
A virus on the Windows side could inspect the
partition table, mount your Linux root, and
infect some system file, but like I said, I would
astonished if that were the case here.

One thing you can do is start your Firefox from
a terminal window and see if there is any output
when it crashes -- you can paste it here if you
like.

- Scott

I replied this am but now the post is missing new server/software I guess

anyhow if as you say that is when the problems began occuring I would say 1 of 2 things happened either the format of the old partition was not 100% successfull and or more likely there was and or is a bad sector on the hard drive which could also contributed to your windows problems, you can test the hard drive and if there is a bad sector you may be able to block that sector from being written to or in worst case scenario you will know that is the issue and you need another drive

as far as infections going from windows to a linux distro, I have read where some now are possible to go from one partition to another or infect a Virtual Machine but so far that is only by security researchers and nothing in the wild, so as your friend said that is extremely unlikely

Thanks Jim. I saw your earlier post and I replied and then the computer froze. The reply went the way of the chiracuaha. I sent Scott the terminal readout and he gave me something to go with. I appreciate you input and I will run it by my sys ad buddy who is better able to understand and act on the information.