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Firefox constantly crashing freezing hanging after recent update.

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yunasan2005
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I am using two different computers and I have the same problem on both. After using Firefox for about 20 minutes my website will suddenly freeze up and become white with a loading circle then I will get notication that firefox stopped responding and had to close. This will happen on any website I visit so I believe it is a problem with the most recent version of firefox causing the websites to crash. I have looked on your forums for help and none of the suggestions there (update firefox, update plugins java, flash, shockwave ect), update video drivers ect seemed to help.

Please tell me what information you need and what steps I need to do to resolve this. It is very flustering when I have to close everything out and start over because Firefox keeps crashing all the time.

Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0

OS: Windows 7 Browser

I am using two different computers and I have the same problem on both. After using Firefox for about 20 minutes my website will suddenly freeze up and become white with a loading circle then I will get notication that firefox stopped responding and had to close. This will happen on any website I visit so I believe it is a problem with the most recent version of firefox causing the websites to crash. I have looked on your forums for help and none of the suggestions there (update firefox, update plugins java, flash, shockwave ect), update video drivers ect seemed to help. Please tell me what information you need and what steps I need to do to resolve this. It is very flustering when I have to close everything out and start over because Firefox keeps crashing all the time. Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0 OS: Windows 7 Browser

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tjohnson
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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 then go back to your forum question and paste those IDs into the "Post a Reply" box.

Note: If a recent Report ID does not start with bp- click on it to submit the report.

(Please don't take a screenshot of your crashes, just copy and paste the IDs. The below image is just an example of what your Firefox screen should look like.)

aboutcrashesFx29

Thank you for your help!

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