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why is firefox crashing all the time when i set google as my homepage

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loen2012
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I started up my pc this morning and when i went to launch firefox it would crash right off the bat. I un-installed it and re-installed it and still had same issue but i noticed that it was after i set my homepage to google and then firefox kept crashing everytime untill i went back to default homepage and i have had no problem as of yet.

I started up my pc this morning and when i went to launch firefox it would crash right off the bat. I un-installed it and re-installed it and still had same issue but i noticed that it was after i set my homepage to google and then firefox kept crashing everytime untill i went back to default homepage and i have had no problem as of yet.

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the_foxhound
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this started happening to me today as well, managed to find a temporary fix, as soon as you load up the page hit the stop button it will stop the page from loading

cor-el
cor-el
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That is likely a problem with the Olympic doodles that Google is currently using on its main search pages.\n It is probably easiest to choose a different home page like about:home or use the search bar on the Navigation Toolbar to initiate the searches for now.

user633449
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For anyone Affected by this issue, Google has corrected this issue on their homepage. While a Firefox fix will still be coming shortly, for now you can set google as your homepage again if you so desire.