firefox keeps crashing

Discussion in 'Software' started by paul70, Aug 12, 2010.

  1. paul70

    paul70 Corporal

    Everytime i use firefox its not opening up and iam getting this , file attached , thanks for any help
     

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  2. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Greetings, paul70...

    First things I'd try would be to disable all plug-ins, extensions, etc...if that doesn't change your symptoms, try Firefox Safe Mode, or uninstall/reinstall the program...
     
  3. motc7

    motc7 Vice Admiral (Starfleet)


    If you do the latter of these things, which really, I would just jump straight to, be sure you dump the program files folder for Mozilla and the Mozilla entry in the registry.
     
  4. paul70

    paul70 Corporal

    i have done this and its still the same crash report iam getting :cry
     
  5. motc7

    motc7 Vice Admiral (Starfleet)

    So Internet Explorer doesn't freeze then, only Firefox?
     
  6. paul70

    paul70 Corporal

    yes , i dont like IE though so i need FF , any suggestions
     
  7. motc7

    motc7 Vice Admiral (Starfleet)

    Well you know it's deffo an application error and specific to Firefox. Just wanted to rule out the possibility of spyware.

    I would use CC cleaner and see if you cannot just delete the reg entries for Firefox only. Then do a full reinstall.
     
  8. paul70

    paul70 Corporal

    done that and is still the same :cry, anything else
     
  9. motc7

    motc7 Vice Admiral (Starfleet)

    I wonder...

    Do this, goto control panel and create a new user with admin rights.

    Uninstall Firefox, and then logout of windows and login with the new username.


    Install Firefox and tell me what happens.
     
  10. rustyjack

    rustyjack MajorGeek

    When Caliban said " run FF in safe mode " how did you do it, because he didn't mean by pressing F8, he meant right click on FF desktop icon and choose " Run FF in safe mode, just pointing this out as some poeple get confused, and switch off their PC and restart in safe mode !
     
  11. Caliban

    Caliban I don't need no steenkin' title!

    Affirmative, rustyjack - sorry about the confusion...

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  12. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    When Firefox (Fx) crashes click the Details box and then copy any text to a notepad file and attach as per the instructions below as the log may hold a clue as to what crashed Fx.

    Also look in Event Viewer and Application logs for a similar crash from Fx and again copy the text into a notepad file and attach.


    Then attach your log to your next post as per these instructions HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post
     

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