Firefox randomly closes
 

This is really pissing me off! Firefox and Mozilla will randomly exit. It doesn't happen with every page I load, i don't think it's a problem w/ plugins because the websites that cause it to close don't have any plugins, I tested them in Konqueror. For example: www.linuxpackages.net causes it to close and so does www.f-prot.org but not this site, yahoo or many others.

CORRECTION: firefox outputs no errors when run from the console and Mozilla outputs this:

/usr/lib/mozilla-1.7b/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 17367 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Sorry for the hostile nature of this post, this is just really frustrating me and I think I've had too much coffee:D

I'd be curious to know if you figure it out, too. I've had some occasional random closings of Firefox, especially with pages that use lots of apparently MSIE-specific scripting and whatnot. (one that has given me problems is suprnova, another was VISA). Probably a bug of some kind. I haven't had as many since I upgraded to version 0.8, though - have you tried that?

I downloaded Mozilla from mozilla.org instead of the precompiled slack packages and it seems to have fixed it on that end

However, it still happens in Firefox and I'm using v0.8

I also get a random closing from firefox 0.8 every once in a while. It seems to happen when im downloading alot of stuff - very inconvienent.

Try using the gtk 1 build of it, if you're using the other one.

I'm using the GTK2 version (I think), the craziest part of all is the fact that it has randomly stopped doing that! lol, I can view the afforementioned websites fine today :confused:

Well, since it was segmentation fault...

I understand your post now that I've looked up the textbook definition of a segmentation fault... makes sense now. It's not like I was running Firefox w/ an unusually high or small memory load so I don't see why it happened at that time. It's fixed now

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I'm having a similar problem, but I don't think its because of a specific page. After browsing for a while (viewing several pages), firefox will either a) refuse to respond when I try to click a hyperlink or b) close without any warning, and without any error. I have no idea how to fix this, and I tried posting in the firefox support forum today with no response :cry:

Please kind souls, can anyone help me solve this problem? Its getting really annoying! I'm running MDK 10.0 on 2.6.4 kernel with KDE. I made a link/icon to the executable on my launch bar that simple executes: /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox

Where did you install it from? The rpm repositories or from the website? Did you try a different build?

I installed it from source, specifically the tarball named: firefox-0.8-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

No I haven't tried a different build. Maybe I shouldn't use the i686 though? I'm still confused about the i386/i586,i686 stuff :newbie: I'm running on an Intel 800MHz Pentium III...

(PS: Thanks for replying :D )

What I mean by a different buit is, the gtk built not the gtk2 + xft one.

I know at least know when it happens. Whenever my firefox closes without warning after i click a link its always because i'm activating a plugin of some sort. Other plug-ins do work though so it might be a problem with the plug not firefox.

Alright then, move all the plugins except for the null one and keep adding them ( and restarting the browser) until it starts crashing.
Also, run it from a terminal, so you can see the output when it crashes.

Maybe check Mozillazine forums?