Firefox shutting itself down?
Anyone ever experience this? Just browsing and click on a link and poof! Firefox closes. Its totally random, it happens on different sites. I went ahead and disabled java and javascript and it still does it. I try to restart firefox and it just flashes and disappears. I did ps -e after it did it last time and found 7 firefox-bin processes and one mozilla.sh running. I try to kill them and they wont die. The only thing that i can do is reboot. Any ideas?:confused:
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I still get this occasional crash which was more frequent in 0.9. Now that I've updated to 1.0, I get these errors less and less, but still happens very rarely.
Are you using FF in Linux or Windows? I don't think I ever needed to reboot after a program crashed in Linux :D |
In Linux, Its never done this in windows:eek: , but yea I have to reboot to get Firefox to open up and be able to browse again. I might just have to try another browser. Ive tried to kill X with Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc and start KDE up again but Firefox still wont start. :scratch: I am using ver.1.0.
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I have seen this as well, I never have figured it out. Except it doesn't die while I'm using it, but every few days or so I have to restart firefox because it does something goofy and my cpu will be all hot and bothered until I do. One time I had the thing where the processes wouldn't die like you said, weird. Often times, firefox will not start the first time I try to launch it after a reboot, just a little flash and it is gone, but the second time I try, it starts. I have experienced this behavior on both yoper and gentoo, but both were on the same machine.
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Try killing all the running firefox processes in your ProcessTable after the crash. Then restart.
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I tried that but could not figure out how to kill just the processes that are used by Firefox. I did them individually but some of them would not die, they remain even after I close the terminal and restart it and do ps -e. Would you, or anyone know why there are 7 instances of firefox-bin?
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I have six instances of firefox-bin running at the moment. I don't think that's a unusual thing.
Edit: I just updated firefox using apt-get to the latest revision. If I see any problems, I'll let you know. If you've seen a bug or have any problems then you might find this forum useful: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38 |
I have been googling for info on firefox crashing but havent really found much. Thanks for the link. :) I just Downloaded Dillo. Its very fast but thats cuz it doesnt have frames, java and all the other extra features.
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The Firefox bookmarks toolbar has that link which I gave you. You must be having it all the time. Maybe you just did not check closely! ;)
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my firefox has "suddenly closed" enough times to where I'm back to using Mozilla. and i thought i was the only one, what with the endless praise of FF...........
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Update to the latest version. I haven't crashed it so far.
Every new release is more stable. From 0.8 crashing ever so often to 1.0 rarely if at all crashing, it's come a long way. |
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