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Firefox crashes after 2 ca. minutes!

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Tried everything! FF crashes after two minutes. No matter what version, no matter what site i am in, no matter safe mode or not, no matter if add-ons are enabled or disabled, no matter javascript is on or off. It just shuts itself down. It is happening after updating to 44.0.2. Any idea? papcon

Tried everything! FF crashes after two minutes. No matter what version, no matter what site i am in, no matter safe mode or not, no matter if add-ons are enabled or disabled, no matter javascript is on or off. It just shuts itself down. It is happening after updating to 44.0.2. Any idea? papcon

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Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.

Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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Dear John 99, FF also crashes when started in FF SAFE MODE

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Yes, but did you also disable all plugins including FlashPlayer and can you let us have some of the Crash IDs that it generates. Or a screenshot of any error messages.

Your other problems are sometimes Flash Hangs that should not happen with Flash Player disabled.

Please leave Firefox ten minutes before forcing it to quit. In that time it would normally generate a crash report. (If you have a light indicating disk activity and think Firefox is still working away in the background leave it even longer )

And a longshot, if you have set Firefox to clear History on close down change that back to the default of not clearing History, because at the moment automatically clearing History may cause problems on Firefox 44.

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FF generates no crash IDs, no error messages. Nothing at all, It just shuts down itself. Every add on nad every plugin manually deactivated. Only in Windows Safe Mode is FF stable!!!

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Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.

Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.

Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

See also:

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Thanks! Scanning with malware program really helped. I used this http://example.com http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php and found after scanning the infections. deleted and know everything is OK. Also i want to thank everyone who posted here! Efcharisto (greek for thank you) guys!

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