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Firefox Mobile 18a1 crashes all the time

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Craig
Craig
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I have been testing Nightly builds of Firefox Mobile for Android for some time now. Recently (after Ion landed), the browser crashes all the time. I can't even get into about:config or about:crashes long enough to get any useful information or try anything. Is there a way to put the browser in Safe Mode? Any other ideas?

Samsung Galaxy Nexus CyanogenMod 10 (Nightly) (Android 4.1.1)

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HP TouchPad CyanogenMod 9 (Android 4.0.3)

I have been testing Nightly builds of Firefox Mobile for Android for some time now. Recently (after Ion landed), the browser crashes all the time. I can't even get into about:config or about:crashes long enough to get any useful information or try anything. Is there a way to put the browser in Safe Mode? Any other ideas? Samsung Galaxy Nexus CyanogenMod 10 (Nightly) (Android 4.1.1) and HP TouchPad CyanogenMod 9 (Android 4.0.3)

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AaronMT
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Hey,

Yes, this is known. We've got a couple bug reports on file and have been investigating it this week. See bugs: http://bugzil.la/791781, http://bugzil.la/792342, http://bugzil.la/790139.

The crash you describe sounds like http://bugzil.la/790139 as I came across this too yesterday.

Hopefully we'll see some fixes soon.

Craig
Craig Question owner
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Thanks for the links Aaron. The crashes in CM10 are far worse than CM9 so far. I'm not using the Reader Mode to cause it to crash (though I do use that feature). It goes down after a couple of seconds at a lot of pages (about:config, about:crashes) without doing a single thing.

I noted that it started happening after Ion landed. I don't know for sure that it is Ion related. If I could keep about:config alive long enough to disable Ion, I would know pretty quickly if that is the problem. I don't know of any other significant changes to Firefox Mobile lately that could have caused this.