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Firefox crashes in Safemode after upgrading to Ver. 8

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Firefox tries to open two tabs and then crashes on start up. When shift key is held down the dialogue box about Safe Mode pops, but is instantly covered by Crash Report d-box.

Firefox tries to open two tabs and then crashes on start up. When shift key is held down the dialogue box about Safe Mode pops, but is instantly covered by Crash Report d-box.

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Your crash report indicates that the cause may be Roboform. You can try to update Roboform to see if that solves the crashing problem: http://www.roboform.com/platforms/browsers/firefox

  • See --> bug 691271 (RESOLVED WORKSFORME Crash mainly close to startup in [@ DebugBreak ] [@ DbgBreakPoint ] with Roboform)


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Not related to your question, but...

You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:

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Chosen Solution

Your crash report indicates that the cause may be Roboform. You can try to update Roboform to see if that solves the crashing problem: http://www.roboform.com/platforms/browsers/firefox

  • See --> bug 691271 (RESOLVED WORKSFORME Crash mainly close to startup in [@ DebugBreak ] [@ DbgBreakPoint ] with Roboform)


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Not related to your question, but...

You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:

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Thanks. This did the trick. I just uninstalled Roboform and then reinstalled Firefox 8 and it works just fine.