07-18-2006, 02:33 AM
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Ever since the last few updates this browser has turned into a pice of crap. It crashes at least 4 times per day on both my laptop Win 2K Pro and my desktop Win 2K Server. Both are stock intalls.
PDF never open or it just freezes the browser.
They might as well name it Firefox ME.
Im trying to switch to Opera but its a hard habbit to break. Just like when I was switching from IE
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07-18-2006, 02:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Evolver
They might as well name it Firefox ME.
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FireFox ME... that was good.... 
The FF crowd will be here later... 
I use FF on a regular basis... I have it open now on another site. Odd that it crashes and stuff... about the only major complaint I ever heard was it uses a lot of memory.
Could it not be some extention you have installed? Does it happen on certain pages? Maybe you have something loaded on the machines that does not play well with FF? Dunno... maybe someone can help more....
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07-18-2006, 03:00 AM
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Have you tried clearing out your profile? I've found that having a profile that migrated from v1.x to v1.5.x will eventually make FF unstable and start to crash. Sometimes a profile with too many extensions that was a v1.5.x fresh install does the same thing. Recreating the profile from scratch and re-importing the bookmarks always fixes it. I support FF for a couple hundred machines and only had to do that several times.
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07-18-2006, 03:08 AM
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Thanks for the info will try the profile clearing. They are both just stock ff installs from upgrades.
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07-18-2006, 03:16 AM
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I was running 1.5 on my Linux box, crashed every hour or so. Upgraded to the Firefox 2, Bon Each Alpha..a lot lot better..
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07-18-2006, 03:56 AM
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I would have to admit that FireFox on a Max OS X 10+ SUCKS!!!
I have a 2GHz, 1.5GB RAM desktop macintosh that runs Photoshop smoother than you can blink, but FireFox just seems to run really really slow, especially when running more than 3+ windows.
Though Firefox has more features I found myself using Safari just because it was a faster browser than FireFox.
Yet on my laptop (Windows XP) and desktop PC it runs normally and it is my favorite browser.
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07-18-2006, 04:04 AM
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I use Firefox as my main browser - never have any problems with it at all...
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07-18-2006, 04:27 AM
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It never crashes for me. Reformat your company. It's not Firefox, it is you.
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07-18-2006, 04:50 AM
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Switch to opera and youll never go back...
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07-18-2006, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by RackFirm
I would have to admit that FireFox on a Max OS X 10+ SUCKS!!!
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Mozilla makes a browser, Camino, specifically for OS X. That's why Firefox doesn't look particularly good.
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07-18-2006, 11:18 AM
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I use FF as my main browser. But it always seems to freeze wit hloading PDFs, some flash applications too.
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Originally Posted by joshcrick
It never crashes for me. Reformat your company. It's not Firefox, it is you.
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Do you have the technical capacity to debug FireFox yourself in such a way that you can source memory leaks FireFox is prone to in loading data for plugins?
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07-18-2006, 11:22 AM
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I use to have 2 or 3 FF windows open, each with 15 to 20 tabs. Never had any problem what so ever with FF. In many cases, I find it even faster than Opera.
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07-18-2006, 04:57 PM
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Firefox has been crashing for me alot, especially on flash intensive places..(think MYSPACE..)
I get that "firefox.exe has encountered and error.." stuff.
I may go back to IE now..
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07-18-2006, 05:13 PM
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What version of FF? You might consider upgrading to a recent FF version or use Opera before returning to IE.
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07-18-2006, 06:25 PM
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I used opera once, But I much prefer Firefox...
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