firefox crashes, too often
Just to quickly say: at this very moment FireFox 2.0.0.2 sucks!
It dies when a page has too many elements, like Wikipedia pages. Also, it does not like more than 1 or 2 YouTube videos in one page. It simply crashes, even in safe mode with no plug-in running. Sometimes it does not crash, but it sort of “stalls” while loading a tab, and you cannot click a link or change tabs with mouse. Honestly I am using Internet Explorer more and more each day. It works fine on all those pages and in same conditions.
Update: I did the following:
- un-installed Firefox
- removed any folder remaining from it
- restarted my laptop and
- then installed Firefox again
The first page I visited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number and guess what? It crashed! It used to crash on the same page before too. Internet Explorer works fine in that page, and I am using IE for all my surfing now.
Update2: Pooya just directed me to the right IRC [ irc.mozilla.org #firefox], where we figured out what was the problem: a font! Yes, one font named Xerxes [see it here] could not render CTRL+L character correctly. So, I removed the font and all the pain was gone. I posted it here as a comment to a bug report in 2006. Thanks Pooya!
March 10th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Ehsan, I’m pretty sure that’s one of your extensions. Also if you use the same profile from old versions try creating a new empty profile. My Firefox after 2.0 is very perfect. I use IE7 at work and it is not even comparable to FF2.0, it is slower.
March 10th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
it does happen in safe mode too. in safe mode no extension is enabled
April 8th, 2007 at 6:23 am
What if Firefox crashes…
So what do you do if you have Firefox installed and you have it setup just the way you think you want it with all the best extensions and all the most usefull GreaseMonkey Scripts and then it crashes? I had this happen to me for the first time this p…..