Thread: Mozilla Firefox Crashing frequently ?

Anyone else having their Firefox browser crashing often? It has been happening with mine frequently the past week or more. I think it may have something to do with my running NoScript but I'm not sure what is going on. It is very annoying. If it is a bug I hope they fix it soon. Other than that it may be my PC. I'm running Kubuntu OS.

No such thing here. Running XP though.

I'm running xp pro, firefox 3.0.10, and a few addons including scriptblocker (one of my faves, alongside AdBlockerPlus) no probs out of the ordinary here. have you tried shutting scriptblocker down?

Originally Posted by GadgetGeek

I'm running xp pro, firefox 3.0.10, and a few addons including scriptblocker (one of my faves, alongside AdBlockerPlus) no probs out of the ordinary here. have you tried shutting scriptblocker down?

No I haven't. I have been happy with it for so long that I have a hard time imagining life without it. I may need to do a fresh install of the Kubuntu. They recently updated to a newer version and a lot of things changed in it. Maybe the bugs aren't worked out yet or there may have been a glich in my update.

mine has alway shut down all the time and never been able to figure out why. its a real pain and I run xp

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

No I haven't. I have been happy with it for so long that I have a hard time imagining life without it. I may need to do a fresh install of the Kubuntu. They recently updated to a newer version and a lot of things changed in it. Maybe the bugs aren't worked out yet or there may have been a glich in my update.

A fresh install is almost never needed. After all, it's Linux, not Windows. And certainly for Firefox, you don't need to do that. What you might want to try, though, is run either of the following commands, and create a new profile. See if the problem persists. If not, there is a problem with your current profile:

Code:

-ProfileManager        Start with ProfileManager.
-safe-mode        Disables extensions and themes for this session.
-g or --debug        Start within /usr/bin/gdb (Must be first)

That said, Firefox hasn't crashed on me for months, and I am running a truckload of add-ons, including noscript. Did you report the crashes using the crash report feature? If not, you might want to do that, and see if any of the developers can come up with a solution.

Good luck.

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.

Fine here with NoScript and AdBlock Plus running. Firefox 3.0.10 under XP.

SRP website can be slow at times, but it's about the only site where I permanently allow ads and disable NoScript.

I've been opening in a terminal with the command firefox - g . This leaves a record of the crash. I had one yesterday which was a freeze up and left more than I can put in a post.

This morning my browser crashed three times in an hour and each time the terminal readout was Segmentation fault . On the last crash a window popped up asking me to send a report to bugs@KDE.org. It read, "The application Plasma Workspace (plasma) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)"

Any thoughts ?

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

This morning my browser crashed three times in an hour and each time the terminal readout was Segmentation fault . On the last crash a window popped up asking me to send a report to bugs@KDE.org. It read, "The application Plasma Workspace (plasma) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)"

Any thoughts ?

Two: Plasma is broken, or your RAM is.

1. Switch to Gnome for a change, and see if the problem persists.
2. Before you go to bed, boot into memtest86+, and let it run.

Good luck.