I don’t know what’s wrong, but my Firefox crashes all the time. I’ve been advised to disable all of the addons, and I did so. But still it happens.
The version of Firefox is 3.0.14. Opensuse is 11.1.
system: HP Pavilion a 1730n
Let me know what I can do.
I swear never had Firefox crashed when it was in its 2 versions.
Have you tried running a new profile by renaming the old one in /home/<user>/ ?
Just rename .mozilla to something else and check again if it still crashes. If it does then i would reinstall it completely.
ipoloton wrote:
> I don’t know what’s wrong, but my Firefox crashes all the time. I’ve
> been advised to disable all of the addons, and I did so. But still it
> happens.
> The version of Firefox is 3.0.14. Opensuse is 11.1.
> system: ‘HP Pavilion a 1730n’ (http://tinyurl.com/27zn82)
>
> Let me know what I can do.
> I swear never had Firefox crashed when it was in its 2 versions.
>
>
FWIW…current Firefox version is 3.5.3.
Download:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
You’ll need to add the FF repos for updates.
I got the latest FF. Like the previous 3-4 versions, it crashes whenever I close it. Not a big deal except for the time it takes to get it closed. So, I’m using Google Chrome. Opera is not bad either.
Google Chrome? Aww… what makes you compare Chrome with Firefox? Two entirely different worlds! Try backing up your bookmarks (\home[username].mozilla\firefox[profilename]\bookmarks.html) and delete folder .mozilla afterwards. Firefox is EXRTREMELY stable. I guess your issues are caused by some kind of plugin. Try and report back.
Like already mentioned before, there is a newer version out and if you kept your system up to date you should be on that version.
So try to update to see if that fixes anything, if not it would indeed be a good idea to delete everything but your bookmarks.
Besides the method TheMask mentioned you can also press the Bookmarks menu option > Organize bookmarks.
> Import and backup > backup.
I am afraid you are on the wrong OS. In Unix/Linux this wouild be:
(/home/[username]/.mozilla/firefox/[profilename]/bookmarks.html) and delete directory .mozilla afterwards.
propman wrote:
> FWIW…current Firefox version is 3.5.3.
>
> Download:
> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
>
> You’ll need to add the FF repos for updates.
The repo’s won’t update packages you installed manually from there.
Just add the mozilla repo and install from there.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.1/
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Chris Maaskant
Chris Maaskant wrote:
> propman wrote:
>
>> FWIW…current Firefox version is 3.5.3.
>>
>> Download:
>> http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
>>
>> You’ll need to add the FF repos for updates.
>
> The repo’s won’t update packages you installed manually from there.
> Just add the mozilla repo and install from there.
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_11.1/
>
I should have made that clearer…thanks, Chris for providing the
relevent info. 
I tried a bunch of steps and the bottom line is that FF no longer crashes on close. However, this was a pain to fix. Well, not the fix but the aftermath.
That’s when it hit the fan. I realized I had lost all my passwords and logins. I tried to copy the profile back in but that caused a cascade of problems. I forgot to copy over profile.ini and then the copying got borked and the copy vanished. Now, FF wouldn’t start saying it was already running. TOP showed nothing.
I deleted the new .mozilla folder and started over. This time I installed the extension FEBE to recover lost settings. But I had been saving them in the wrong place and FEBE didn’t work.
So, I have a well working FF, but will have to recreate my passwords one at a time. I also didn’t realize how much customization I lost: one-click selection of the address bar; new tab button; theme etc. Guess I’ll have to teach myself all this again 
OMG, guys, I just asked a question. what a hot topic it became! lol
anyways, I uninstalled FF3.0.14 and from that rep., I installed 3.5.3. I hope it doesn’t crash anymore. I will report any ugly matter with FF.
And, yes, nothing is comparable to FF.
thanks
i’m back. it crashed again.
i’m thinking if it has anything to do with its java engine.it crashed on two pages:
it crashed a couple of times when it was just loading yahoo mail or gmail. I also had the problem when in facebook, someone would try to send me a message on its chat section. these are all the known cases!
right now, i don’t have any addon enabled.
so, what do you think?