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I do have a lot of work to do over the Internet and I use Firefox most of the time. I was comfortable with it, but lately I am facing some problems of Firefox crashing and resulting in the loss of data and wastage of time. I have to restart the computer to have it working again and restore the sites that I was working on. This occurs especially when I try to play some media files. Could anyone here suggest me some solution for this?
What version of firefox are you using? I am experiencing similar problems with 3.6. I think it is a bug, but haven't found fix yet. I cannot access any of the menu items without rebooting, and if I try it just freezes. I think it may be related to the sudo su 'unable to resolve host' problem, but have not experienced enlightenment yet.
Have you filed a Bugzilla report? Do you have FF set to auto-update?
They like to know when there's a problem so it can be corrected, and they're rather quick at it too, I might add. FWIW, I've only had one crash with 3.6- just one day before RC2 was released.
I have a few issues going on, one of which is with my ISP Virgin. But it was working fine, and you may be right. I was trying to get mplayer working properly again, with mplayerplug-in. But will remove it as kaffeine is working fine. The installation script I was using needs updating as well as some of the .deb packages due to reinstall upgrade from Lenny 5.0 to 5.3.
I experience the same problem, but I don't see any reason to have to restart the computer. I just restart firefox, and while it's loading (and trying to get back to the page that caused the crash) press ctrl+left arrow. That goes back to the previous page (that didn't cause a crash).
If, for some reason, that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+backspace to restart the X server, instead of rebooting the computer.
Just get rid of all multimedia plug-ins, use something like Multimedia Connectivity Extension if you need support for multimedia in the browser. Also, try to cut down on the number of extensions, they can slow down and destabilize FF as well. Personally I've never had 3.6 crash.
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I was comfortable with it, but lately I am facing some problems of Firefox crashing and resulting in the loss of data and wastage of time. 
I have to restart the computer to have it working again and restore the sites that I was working on. This occurs especially when I try to play some media files. Could anyone here suggest me some solution for this? 
