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  1. #1
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    Computer troubles... Mainly firefox

    I love Firefox, and I like my computer that is only 4 months old. Well, tonight Firefox crashed twice. The first time I had it under control and was able to restart Firefox without rebooting. Just now, I have had to reboot. When it freezes, CPU usage jumps up to 90-100%.

    System Specs:
    2.6GHz Celeron (yes, it's cheap)
    256MB RAM
    Windows XP Home

    Using Firefox 0.9.

    Is anyone else having this problem, or can help me? It really made me angry.. a while ago, it might have been a few days ago, Firefox crashed and lost all my preferences. Fortunately I was able to find them in my user directory (C:\Documents and Settings\-username-) and restore my bookmarks manually.
    He arose!

  2. #2
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    Some searching shows if you have SP2 for XP, its causing some issues.

    Also, check out their forums

    Also, make sure you have all the current updates/patches for XP.
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  3. #3
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    Try firefox 0.9.1

  4. #4
    Uninstall, delete your profile ( C:\Documents ans Settings\YouyrName\Phoenix ) and reinstall FireFox 0.9.1 . I had exactly the same problem when I upgraded my 0.8 to 0.9 .
    Alex-Info.net

  5. #5
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    I've heard a number of reliability problems with Firefox 0.9. Apparently 0.9.1 is better.

  6. #6
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    Just use Mozilla You don't have to install all the other stuff that comes with it -- you can choose just to install the browser.

  7. #7
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    Oh, I need to upgrade to 0.9.1? I'm using 0.9. I didn't know that 0.9.1 is out.. I'll upgrade today.

    I have SP1, and all my updates are installed. So I'll try upgrading to 0.9.1 and see what happens.
    He arose!

  8. #8
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    I had a bunch of issues with the latest version of Firefox. Like alex-info said, did you uninstall 0.8 before you installed 0.9? This causes a lot of problems especially if you have extensions installed. The new version seems even more stable.

    Now all I need is a better pagerank extension. =) The following is ok, but I've had some problems with it.

    http://www.prgooglebar.org/

  9. #9
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    Originally posted by alex-info
    Uninstall, delete your profile ( C:\Documents ans Settings\YouyrName\Phoenix ) and reinstall FireFox 0.9.1 . I had exactly the same problem when I upgraded my 0.8 to 0.9 .
    Ouch, deleting your profile is like a last step measure.
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  10. #10
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    IIRC there is a post on the mozillazine forums about people deleting their profile data to fix something, but someone also posted a way to restore your profile data after (I *think* that's what they were doing, I didn't read it fully because I've never had any problems)

  11. #11
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    I just upgraded to 0.9.1 this morning and I haven't had any problems.. yet. *knocks on wood*
    He arose!

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