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Firefox crashes without the crash reporter appearing

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I have a new Macbook Pro with the latest version of Lion, Firefox Beta (14), and two or three times over the past 3 weeks since I got my new computer Firefox has crashed randomly.

The Apple crash reporter appears, but the Firefox one does not. about:crashes is completely empty and it's like Firefox doesn't even know it crashed.

What can I do to debug what happened and prevent it?

I have a new Macbook Pro with the latest version of Lion, Firefox Beta (14), and two or three times over the past 3 weeks since I got my new computer Firefox has crashed randomly. The Apple crash reporter appears, but the Firefox one does not. about:crashes is completely empty and it's like Firefox doesn't even know it crashed. What can I do to debug what happened and prevent it?

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To get the crash reporter look in Firefox ->Preferences->Advanced->General-> [v] Submit crash reports.

Also not all crashes prompt the crash reporter.

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Do the crashes also occur with the Firefox 13.0.1 release version?

Does the Apple crash reports give any clues about where the crashes occur?

See:

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I'll give Firefox 13.0.1 a try, however it might be awhile before I get another crash. Thanks

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I used Firefox 13.0.1 for a week and I didn't have a single crash, but the 14.0.1 was released yesterday. I updated and it took until today for me to have a repeat of this crash. The full browser goes down while in the middle of surfing, and the only crash reporter is the Apple one.

about:crashes is still empty :/

I couldn't find any clues in the Apple crash report about what the problem might be.

By the way, it's not a plugin because I have them all disabled.

Any other thoughts or suggestions?