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Firefox crashes

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kiranmadhavan
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Firefox crashing frequently. Tried opening it in safe mode, it worked for some time and crashed when I opened yahoo.com and opened a link in a new tab

Firefox crashing frequently. Tried opening it in safe mode, it worked for some time and crashed when I opened yahoo.com and opened a link in a new tab

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ideato
ideato
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Hello kiranmadhavan, we're sorry to hear that Firefox is crashing. In order to assist you better, please follow the steps below to provide us crash IDs to help us learn more about your crash.

  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A Submitted Crash Reports list will appear, similar to the one shown below.
  2. Copy the 5 most recent Report IDs that start with bp- and paste them into your response here.

SubmittedCrashReports-Win7

Thank you for your help!

More information and further troubleshooting steps can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.

Aman Routh
Aman Routh
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You can use one of these to start Firefox in Safe Mode:

  • On Windows, hold down the Shift key while starting Firefox with a double-click on the Firefox desktop shortcut
  • On Mac, hold down the Options key while starting Firefox
  • Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode

https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

If you have submitted crash reports then please post the IDs of one or more recent crash reports that have a "bp-" prefix: 

  bp-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx

You can find the IDs of the submitted crash reports on the about:crashes page.

You can open the about:crashes page via the location bar, like you open a website, or open the crash reports page via "Help > Troubleshooting Information".

See:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mozilla_Crash_Reporter https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Mozilla+Crash+Reporter

If you can't open Firefox, see:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mozilla_Crash_Reporter#Location_of_crash_reports 


http://kb.mozillazine.org/Mozilla_Crash_Reporter#Viewing_crash_reports
cor-el
cor-el
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You can also check for problems with current Flash plugin versions and try these:

  • disable a possible RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin extension for Firefox and update the RealPlayer if installed
  • disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
  • disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin