Ask the Doctor: Firefox Blues
Posted 01/27/09 at 05:15:45 PM by The Maximum PC Staff
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I have been using Firefox for a good while now, but I started having a problem with it a couple months ago. While using it, all of a sudden a box appears that says Firefox is shutting down. Sometimes, Firefox will run for a long time, but then other times it shuts down right away. When it shuts down, a box with the heading “firefox.exe” comes up; the text in the box reads, “Firefox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.”
I’ve even broken down and tried IE, but it does the same thing with the same error message. I’ve also tried Opera, and it seems to work OK. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox and have even gone back to a previous version but that didn’t help.
—Larry
Your problem doesn’t seem to be related to Firefox itself, given that it’s affecting both Firefox and Internet Explorer. The Doctor suspects that something has gone haywire with your Windows installation. But before you wipe and reinstall, make sure you don’t have a hardware issue, such as a bad stick of RAM. Launch Windows Memory Diagnostic (http://tinyurl.com/vbqmq) to see if faulty memory is the root of your evil.
If that still doesn’t fix your Firefox woes and you’re running the most up-to-date version of the browser (and have installed all recent updates to your operating system), try running through Mozilla’s extensive list of crash solutions: http://tinyurl.com/569xtb.
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Ask the Doctor: Firefox Blues
Submitted by BloodyLunatic on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 9:06pm
TechNote DetailsLast Update: 10-14-2008
ID: tn_19166
OS: Windows
Database: All
Browser: All http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_19166&sliceId=1 look this the subinacl was the solution for me after a lot of errors messages from explorer ,firefox...
Submitted by kc7wbq on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 9:39am
On a related note, I found Firefox 3.0.5 unstable.
My work computer and a home computer, both running Widows XP, had issues with 3.0.5 crashing at random time on random web pages. I tried a lot of things including shutting off all my plug-in and reinstalling Windows on my home machine, but nothing worked until I backed off to verion 3.0.4. I've only had Firefox crash once since then.
3.0.5 runs fine on my Vista 64 machine.
Ditto on the
Submitted by kowal on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 6:26pm
Ditto on the flash......upgrade your flash player and or plugin
Submitted by BloodyLunatic on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 3:59pm
Hi,y got the same prob last day the prob is Adobe flash player 10,a patch can be find ,if you use Vista chek the error reports and solutions,it work for me it must work for you too....PS:sorry for my bad english my primary langage is french.
Submitted by kris79 on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 11:55am
I've had the same problem. I run Vista 64 premium. Has anyone else confirmed that it's the Adove flash player 10 patch? My error reports did not find any solution to this problem... BTW, mein Fuhrer, if a patch for Firefox and other programs are not playing nice together - then it is a Firefox et. al. problem... Thanks
Why is everyone so afraid to
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 3:37pm
Why is everyone so afraid to recommend usning Windows System Restore? Believe it or not an I don't care if you don't believe me that using System Restore has fixed lots of problems for me over the years. It's not a myracle worker but it's worth a try. I mean if your install is nuked sometimes it can be reversed with System Restore. Try It. If it doesn't work you can come back and say that didn't work. If it does work then there you are.
Submitted by gamesfrager on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 3:25pm
@ editor of the article...
"Your problem doesn’t seem to be related to Firefox itself"
then change the title name of this article ! at first it shows as if FireFox is getting buggy! and that is not true, even you mentioned it is not true.
While this might be nothing to some it's impact shouldn't be taken lightly.
Submitted by gibsurfer84 on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 3:56pm
Or for the less passionate of us, it could just be the title of the dude that wrote the e-mail to MaxPC.
I don't think there is a
Submitted by I Jedi on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 4:09pm
I don't think there is a need to be a Nazi about a heading and all. Of course, the heading can be a bit misleading, I can understand. However, the article itself does tie into the heading, too, so I'm not quite getting why it's such a big deal as to make your keyboard stress under the weight of your fingers crunching down on the individual keys over an article's heading? If given the choice, what would you have made the article's titled to? I can't really think of any good replacement for the article. Perhaps you may have liked it more with Firefox/IE 8 Blues?
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