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- Firefox 3 has been randomly crashing and many users are getting frustrated with firefox 3 crashes & hanging issue. Here is list of Fixes for Firefox 3 Crashes.This might help out those users who are suffering from firefox 3 crashes.
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9 Fix For Firefox 3 Crashes & Hanging Problem
Firefox 3 is one of Best Open Source Browser and highly Secure Browser. With the Release of Firefox 3 on Download Day it has made the way to millions of users Computer. Majority of Users are happy with Firefox 3 which has improved Memory Management and Speed. Even i have felt that memory Consumption is reduced alot and WebPages loads way faster then older Firefox version. Read how you can Tweak Firefox 3 about:config to get more out of Firefox 3.
But some of users are not happy just because of some of random Crashes of Firefox 3. This is really frustrating for them. Many Users have reported that this Crashes never happened with them before. After Searching around whole day I got some of Fixes for Firefox 3 Crashes This might help some Users .
Firefox 3 Crash - Extensions & Add-on:
Most of the Firefox 3 crash and hang issue are because of incompatible Firefox 3 add-on and Extensions. You must check weather any of installed extensions are in Mozilla Problematic extensions List. Disable/Remove all Incompatible Extensions.
If you are not sure which Extensions Add-on creating problem then Perform the following steps to identify Extensions Issue
Go To Mozilla Firefox Profile Directory
Rename extensions folder to extensions1 for a time
Create Empty Extensions folder
Now check you Firefox is crashing or not. If it stops crashing then its your extensions and add-on creating Firefox 3 crash problem.
Ref: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
Firefox 3 Crash and RescueTime:
Their has been several report that RescueTime has been responsible to Firefox 3 crashes.
RescueTime Team is working on this and will get fixed version of RescueTime.
Ref: http://getsatisfaction.com/rescuetime/topics/rescuetime_crashes_firefox_3
Firefox 3 Crashes- Vista Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
No Solution Available (Will update as soon as I get any working solution )
Firefox 3 and Gmail Loading Crash
Users have reported Crash while loading Gmail inbox. one of culprit in this case is CustomizeGoogle (Extensions) Disable This extension or disabling the hide invite box and hide quick contact box functions in CustomizeGoogle (extension) solves the problem.
Ref: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440969
Another Extension which also causes Firefox 3 to Crash when you open Gmail is FireBug. Incase if you use firebug then disable and check it’s still crashing.
Firefox 3 Crash Due to QuickTime plugin
Firefox 3 crashes due to QuickTime Plugin, Just Install the latest QuickTime plugin and it will resolve the problem.
Ref: http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9913
Ubuntu Firefox 3 Flash Crash
Adobe has released latest Beta Flash Player 10 beta 2 which has fix for many bugs which also addresses Linux Flash bugs. Installing Flash Player 10 beta 2 will solve Firefox 3 Crashes due to Flash on Ubuntu.
Firefox 3 crash reported on Ubuntu due to flash content has following Fix
1) Add ‘export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1’ to /usr/bin/firefox (This is the Script which starts Firefox).
2) Turning Composite off in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
3) Switch screen depth from 16 to 24 bits. Also, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to do same change
Ref: http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2006/10/ubuntu-firefox-flash-crash-this-fix.html
Firefox 3 Crash When You Right Mouse Click
Problematic Extension in this case is ‘Free Download Manager Plugin 1.0’ which is not compatible with Firefox 3.Disabling Download Manager Plugin 1.0 will get you out of this problem.
Ref: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=681355&p=3510795
kaspersky 2009 Causes Firefox 3 to Crash
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 is responsible for Firefox 3 crashes for many users, this is confirmed by Kaspersky. They are testing out fixed version of Kaspersky and will soon make available for download
Mean while here is the solution to stop Firefox 3 Crash due to Kaspersky
1. Download Sysinternals AutoRuns for Windows.
2. Extract and run autoruns.exe
3. Click AppInit tab and uncheck C:\Progra~1\Kasper~1\Kasper~1\mzvkbd.dll
4. Restart your computer.
Ref:raymond.cc
Firefox 3 Crashes Whenever You download Something (Ubuntu Hardy)
This is a typical problem. Whenever you try to download from any where, Firefox 3 crashes. Culprit behind This Firefox 3 crash is Prism 0.2 Extension. Disabling This Extension will solve this issue
Ref: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=827399
Firefox 3 Crashes when You Use Yahoo Mail
Exact problem for this Firefox 3 Crash is Yahoo! Application State plugin, You’ll need to disable this plugin.
- From the menu at the top of the Firefox window, select File and then select the Exit menu item.
- Open My Computer or Windows Explorer.
- Browse to the directory: C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\shared
- Delete the file npYState.dll. Now that this plugin has been removed, Firefox may stop crashing when using Yahoo! Mail.
FireBug can also cause Firefox 3 Crash either disable FireBug for Yahoo Mail or get Latest Updated FireBug Extention.
Ref:http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+crashes+when+using+Yahoo+Mail
Firefox 3 Crashes when you open MSN (www.msn.com)
Some of Firefox 3 users have reported crash of Firefox 3 while opening www.msn.com, only one solution found to be solving this problem . Silverlight is culprite for this type Firefox 3 crash.Disable silverlight and then check out.
Standard Diagnostic Steps for Firefox 3 Crash Isseue
- Exit Firefox Completely
- Clear Cache
- Close Firefox from File – Exit. Make sure its not running in background
- Start Firefox in Safe Mode
- Extension and Theme Issue Check list of Problematic Extensions
- Profile Issue
- Plugin Issue
- Clean Reinstall
Read here for Firefox Hang Issue. In case none of above Solution works for you then check out Firefox 3 Top Crash page
I will suggest to Report to Mozilla When ever you have any Firefox 3 Crash via Mozilla Crash Reporter, This helps mozilla developers to look into problem which resulted in Firefox 3 Crash.
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fiefox has reaaly good extensions along with annoying problme
so i love to use opera 
Are these for only for FireFox 3? I am using Flock which gets crashed once in a while. Anything to fix it?
~Sahil
To tell the truth, Firefox 3 is very stable and has not crashed even once on me. I am an Opera fan, but even I will admit that Firefox 3 is very good and works great. I have been using it on my system intermittently since version 3 came out.
Now i know what caused my FF3 crash. I used most of the software mentioned above.
AVG8 has a link scanner that will drop FF3 to its knees (crash). Disable link scanning and all will be well.
does anyone know why i cant update to FF 3 ive installed it today
and it simply wont start, i get a few seconds of “hourglass” cursor
then nothing…
check task manager … and yupp says Firefox running.. but no sign of it
nothing on a Google for that issue on Xp sp3
no fix finally find a link to download FF 2 …which ( so far is fine)
Ive downloaded so many things in the past and installed but firefox 3 seems so problem ridden ,even the experts are mystified,I drive a car and never get under the bonnet,Ive always done that with windows.Firefox 3 was teriffic when it worked but I wish someone would tell them how many millions are waiting for foolproof ff3
Same with Skype there are millions whove just given up trying to pay
Gerry
Extension…the real culprits to the Firefox world and the real points of Firefox. It is a big dilemma, and well, Opera seems to be a winner here.
Yes, Firefox 3.0 on openSUSE Linux is just painful. I’ve had four crashes on the Huffington Post in the last five minutes.
I would say it’s very likely that Firefox 3 JavaScript handling is the problem. I have an number of extensions installed, but almost all are related to file downloading. My main media player is mplayer which handles most media. But when Firefox crashes merely during a page load, it has to be JavaScript as the culprit or some other page handling bug.
If it keeps up, I’m going to have to downgrade back to 2.0.0.16. I should have known better than to install a .0 release of anything - it’s ALWAYS a bad idea. That’s why I’m not upgrading my OpenSUSE 10.3 to 11.0 for several months.
On ubuntu here is the way I was able to get Firefox3 as stable as 2
This is how I was able to make Firefox 3 stable & Crash Free — it has not crashed once since I did this.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=866593
hey guys, i have recently applied the “21 tweaks for firefox 3.0″ and modified it to prevent it from crashing, but now i’m running into an other strange problem, it takes me FOREVER to load flash pages. is anyone else having these problems? or does anyone have suggestions on how to fix them??
Opera Rules…. Firefox is nothing but a hypebox…… I use Opera (Awesome and INNOVATIVE browser) for normal surfing & use FF only when I need those gory and heavy extensions…..
I’ve done everything and Firefox 3.0 still keeps crashing, specifically on the BBC website. Are there any resolutions for that?
Richard Steven Hack, I use fx3 on Suse 10.3 and 11.0 and all is ok. Maybe upgrade to 11.0 will solve your problem.
For those Opera lovers, for what I would want a bag full of things that I’ll never use?
I don’t have any problems at all with firefox 3
no problems with extensions
and no problems with my adblock plus.
never crashes.
works perfectly.
however…
when im on someone elses computer who is not computer savy
Im going through the same steps I took
so i instal firefox 3 and when the box pops up ‘missing plug in’s” and it wont install the missing plug in’s. we down load the plug ins but they still no luck. I figured out how to fix the adblock plus issue but the flsah is still a mystery. *shrugs* ill keep digging for answers.
I don’t know why I didn’t have any of these problems, maybe because I had all the extensions and add-on’s in the older versions of fire fox. And it kept it all as it upgraded?
*shrugs*