Firefox Crashing Constantly

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-03-02 05:10pm

Whether it's gmail, yahoo mail, or a web form, FF (1.5) keeps crashing at least once a day when interacting with it. Help!?

EDIT: And yes, I clear the cache every single day, no dice. I think it's related to the password storage.

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2006-03-02 05:15pm

What extensions are you running?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-03-02 05:18pm

althornin · Post by **althornin** » 2006-03-02 06:52pm

Well, I'd really suggest moving to the new adblock, the one you are using is waaaay old.
Adblock plus FTW:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=377920
Plus it has a built in filterset updater (i think).
I'd also suggest creating a new profile.
Just copy over your bookmarks file, and start fresh.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-03-02 09:33pm

Adblock is known to be a problematic extension.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-03-02 09:36pm

Whats it even do? I don't get popups and shit with vanilla FF: does it block banner providers or something?

Elheru Aran · Post by **Elheru Aran** » 2006-03-02 09:38pm

Stark wrote:Whats it even do? I don't get popups and shit with vanilla FF: does it block banner providers or something?

Yes. Those annoying GIF's, the 'Shoot the Monkey, Win an iPod!' dealies, as well as any other advertisments that you don't want cluttering up your load times.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-03-02 09:38pm

Stark wrote:Whats it even do? I don't get popups and shit with vanilla FF: does it block banner providers or something?

Exactly.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-03-02 10:12pm

Nothing's fucking working.

At all!!

EDIT: Worse, the more I poke and prod it to try getting it fixed, the worse and more often the crashes get. Hell, it crashes with 100% certainty when uninstalling an extension, and I suspect that causes damage too.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-03-02 10:28pm

Hmm, it was either Adblock, Gmail Notifier, or a comination of both, but it appears the problem is licked for now...

DesertFly · Post by **DesertFly** » 2006-03-02 10:59pm

Odd, I have both of those (as well as a crapload more than I remembered when I checked), and I have zero crashing problems.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-03-04 04:27pm

It's definitely licked. Now to find a very lightweight extension that blocks Flash ads and not flash-only-site interfaces (which still suck but nowhere as much).

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2006-03-04 04:51pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:It's definitely licked. Now to find a very lightweight extension that blocks Flash ads and not flash-only-site interfaces (which still suck but nowhere as much).

This should do the trick.