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?

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

In Linux, Its never done this in windows , 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. I am using ver.1.0.

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.

Try killing all the running firefox processes in your ProcessTable after the crash. Then restart.

That works.

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?

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.

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!

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...........

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.

Everytime I install a new browser I delete all the links that come wih it. LOL, But ive been to that site before.