Feb 15 2006
Solved my Firefox crashes!
Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 1.5 on my Linux desktop, I had been experiencing crashes daily. As my browser has now been happily running for more than 2 days in a row, it looks like I found the culprit, and I thought I’d share the information here in case others are pulling their hair out.
So here’s what I did: I disabled TargetAlert, and Firefox is now very stable, and also faster.
February 15th, 2006 at 13:30
Works on Windows too! Or at least I think it does. I was having daily crashes and decided to disable half a dozen extensions I didn’t really use, including TargetAlert. No more crashes.
March 5th, 2006 at 4:08
I came across this page after googling “firefox crashes,” and I have (well, had, I just uninstalled it) TargetAlert, so I hope that my Firefox will get back to normal!
March 14th, 2006 at 17:37
Is target alert an extension? If not how do you disable target alert where is it located?
Thanks in advance
March 14th, 2006 at 18:04
Yes, it is an extension: see the TargetAlert site.
March 24th, 2006 at 19:49
I solved my Firefox 1.5 stability problem by reducing the number of simultaneous server connects from eight down to four. This completely stabilized crash issues I had when connecting to Flash-enabled sites. I’m happy again!
April 3rd, 2006 at 23:26
I have tried it. So far so good. Thanks!
April 4th, 2006 at 4:25
[...] Removed TabX as a test to remove crashes (thanks to Hugo's Blog) [...]
November 27th, 2006 at 17:28
None of the above applies to me. FF crashes — and is SOOOO SLOOOOOW when it has been idle for a few minutes. I get in a couple clicks, to open something, whatever, and then it SITS there, grinding away, for sometimes 2 or 3 MINUTES. I have better things to do than staring at an hourglass.
Anyone else have that happen? I am SOO frustrated. Love FF but can’t stand this anamoly. And often it crashes, losing all my open tab info, and when it restarts, those links are NOT in history.
Problems:
– crashes
– takes 2-3 min to get going again after being idle
– disappears from open file icons at bottom of screen — it is really still open BEHIND other applications! have to minimize others to find it — a real pain — happens too, too often
December 6th, 2006 at 9:51
I’ve been getting the same result as Carol. FF will sit there — a tab will show that it’s still trying to download information from a page that looks fully loaded. If I click FF off, it crashes the computer. I saw one site that suggested a virus or spyware, but NOD32 anti-virus (the one that originally detected the virus that does this) did NOT detect it on two computers that have this anomaly, and Zone Alarm and SpySweeper spyware searches did not detect it either.
November 26th, 2008 at 3:26
This is a site that has a few ways of solving Firefox problems
http://www.fixya.com/support/p982208-mozilla_firefox
I recommend it quite a lot because it really helped me.