Firefox crashes

[Jeff]

Not sure if it's just me, but it seems that Firefox has been randomly crashing every 20 minutes since I got my system home from the shop with it's new motherboard. I did a reinstall of Vista, but that didn't do anything. Read somewhere that this current version of Firefox was having crashing issues, so I was wondering if anyone else had the same problems?

[IwantMORE]

Have you tired a previous build, or try out the latest beta. See if that fixes the problem.

I take it it's only firefox that does this? Have you run other software, especially memory hungry stuff. It could be a bad block of memory...

[Jeff]

None of my other programs crash. Just Firefox. I will run Memtest to see if anything comes up.

[Scotty]

I have 3 GB of memory, which Vista eats like a pig.

If I have Firefox open with 150+ tabs, it will eat up half to 3/4 gig of memory, and will be prone to crashing (especially if I get above 175+ tabs), sometimes just a few minutes after all the tabs reload from the prior crash.

I suspect it may be more of an Adobe Flash issue ( [ :mad: ]ing adverts) than a Firefox issue.

If I read and close enough tabs, the problem goes away.

I end up with that many tabs from opening 25-50 news items, reading the first one, but then finding another 2-4 items to read at the bottom of the item I just finished. Sorta gets away from me from time to time. :eek:

[Jeff]

I re-installed Vista yesterday. Downloaded Firefox and it happened. Did not have Flash installed. Today, it has only happened once. I'll keep an eye on it and see how it goes.

[IwantMORE]

Could be some bad javascript...

http://noscript.net/

[crunchy superman]

FF 3.5 finally came out today. Much faster, so far.

[Crosma]

FF 3.5 finally came out today. Much faster, so far.Its new JavaScript engine is lightning fast, which makes everything else significantly snappier.

I've also had fewer stability problems, which was why I started using the betas rather than 3.0.

[Jeff]

Think it had something to do with my CPU not being compatible with my new motherboard that I got a few months ago. When I updated the BIOS to 1406, everything went away.

[Waiter]

I never had any crashing issues with FF. Ever. One of the major reasons why I'm not even checking out the "competition".

[NutWrench]

Did you install an add-on recently? Try disabling it.

[Jeff]

I did install a few add-ons, but they haven't caused any problems.