Firefox crashes on loading quite frequently

ralvy · 2006-06-14 04:53:33

I'm seeing this happen quite frequently -- perhaps once every 10 times I load firefox: it just locks up without loading any page at all. I must close it (which takes a while), and then load again. The next time always works fine. I have tried setting it simply load nothing on startup (no home page), but fails to resolve it.

I see this behavior with the latest version (1.5.0.4), along with previous 1.5.0.x versions. I see it with the Mozilla-supplied binary downloads. I see it with Arch-supplied binaries. I see it in other distros, so it's not an Arch issue per se.

Am I the only one?

user · 2006-06-14 08:09:46

me too,

first time when i use 1.5.0.4 it didn't happened, but lately, sometime it.

I guess someone found the security hole of ff-1.5.0.4.

ralvy · 2006-06-14 14:25:41

This is happening so often today, I have now switch from Firefox to Konqueror. It definitely happens more often under Arch than under other Linux distros I have installed.

lessthanjake · 2006-06-14 15:57:13

Have you noticed if it is only on pages with flash content? My FF crashes from time to time, but if i uninstall flash-plugin it is 100% stable.

ralvy · 2006-06-14 16:03:47

I thought it might have something to do with the Home page I was loading, so I changed Firefox so that it never loads a page on startup and it still happens.

ralvy · 2006-06-14 17:17:22

combate wrote:

i fixed that problem removing my ~/.mozilla folder. because config's from previous firefox wasn't compatible with firefox 1.5.x.

Will try that. Thanks.

ralvy · 2006-06-14 17:19:58

A few minutes later ... still happening, even after deleting ~/.mozilla and reconfiguring all over again. The only things I copied over from the old folder were my bookmarks and my plugins. All other configs were recreated from scratch.

ralvy · 2006-06-15 19:21:37

One thing to point out ... I see this happen more often under Arch Current, though it does happen in other disrtros I have installed (Fedora Core 5, Kubuntu 6.06, and CentOS 4.3). However, it never seems to happen under Slackware 10.2 with the 2.4 kernel installed.

paranoos · 2006-06-15 19:45:14

try it without copying your plugins, or reconfiguring, please.

if you have greasemonkey installed, i would imagine that could do it. i had bad luck with that extension. could be anything, though.

ralvy · 2006-06-28 19:34:20

Following up ...

After removing extension Forecastfox Enhanced and going back to regular Forecastfox, this problem seems gone.

twiistedkaos · 2006-06-28 19:48:57

ralvy wrote:

Following up ...
After removing extension Forecastfox Enhanced and going back to regular Forecastfox, this problem seems gone.

You'll find out that often times firefox isn't the reason for crashing. It's a addon or extension you're using. So when you have a crash that happens alot and you can't explain it disable all your extenstions and reanable 1 by 1.

fk · 2006-06-28 20:11:39

It't seems to be an flash problem, if you uninstall flashplugin or block all flash, no problems

twiistedkaos · 2006-06-28 21:16:52

fk wrote:

It't seems to be an flash problem, if you uninstall flashplugin or block all flash, no problems

I expience no problems with flash on my end. Run firefox through terminal and broswe the web some. Wait for it to crash and then paste the error here.

fk · 2006-06-28 21:19:05

I expience no problems with flash on my end. Run firefox through terminal and broswe the web some. Wait for it to crash and then paste the error here.

After few Minutes Firefox have 100% Prozessor, it is the same thing with Opera, It is not a FF problem it is a Problem with the Flash

http://www.derflo.org/ff.jpg

twiistedkaos · 2006-06-28 21:20:12

fk wrote:

I expience no problems with flash on my end. Run firefox through terminal and broswe the web some. Wait for it to crash and then paste the error here.
After ~30 Minutes Firefox have 100% Prozessor, it is the same thing with Opera, It is not a FF problem it is a Problem with the Flash

Or just a problem with your system. As I said, try what I said before you draw conclusions .I never stated it was a firefox problem. But if flash is crashing Firefox it WILL output an error. And from that error we are one step closer to fixing your problem.

fk · 2006-06-28 21:21:44

I have edit my last Post

twiistedkaos · 2006-06-28 21:28:11

fk wrote:

I have edit my last Post

Well, this isn't the same problem the user who posted this topic had, his firefox was crashing from a plugin. So let me clear some things up. When viewing a flash animation, firefox takes 100% CPU? Can you post a link to the flash animation you are trying to view so I can see if it does th e same for me?

fk · 2006-06-28 21:29:56

http://www.winfuture.de/

But the I think admin have change the FlashAds after many User have Problems, but try it, I have bockt the Flashads with Adblock since yesterday evening

twiistedkaos · 2006-06-28 21:35:25

fk wrote:

http://www.winfuture.de/
But the I think admin have change the FlashAds after many User have Problems, but try it, I have bockt the Flashads with Adblock since yesterday evening

Hmm no problem here, even letting it idle in another tab for the last couple of minutes. Try as I said though, open your terminal and type:

firefox

and view a flash animation, see it if displays a never ending loop of errors(that's what the problem seems to me) if it does, post acouple of the errors. It is aknown fact that Macromedia Flash has bad support for linux and even worse for MacOS, but it's working fine here.

fk · 2006-06-28 21:42:41

and view a flash animation, see it if displays a never ending loop of errors(that's what the problem seems to me) if it does, post acouple of the errors. It is aknown fact that Macromedia Flash has bad support for linux and even worse for MacOS, but it's working fine here.

Then you can lucky that you have not this problem

I test it, but .... not yet

desertViking · 2006-06-29 02:58:38

I run NoScript plug-in, which blocks flash unless I want allow a site. Firefox is very stable for me in this configuration.

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