Firefox Crashing More

[maclaptech]

Has anyone else noticed that Firefox is becoming more crash prone with all these rapid release upgrades or is it just me?

 

[humberpc]

Seems ok for me on my Ubuntu and Windows 7 PC. Maybe a full uninstall and reinstall will help.

 

[Simmy]

I've noticed the same thing along with random freezing. RAM usage is going up and up too. I'd hate to have to switch to another browser as Firefox does everything I want it to.

 

[Cambridge PC Support]

I was a die-hard FF user for years, then switched to Chrome about a year ago and never looked back!

 

[Encrypted Existence]

I was a die-hard FF user for years, then switched to Chrome about a year ago and never looked back!

I really liked Chrome (when it would work for me). I was pretty much forced to switch to FF because Chrome would crash on me at least twice a day. I have been using FF for a couple of months now and it has only crashed once I believe. To answer the OP...FF has been working fine for me.

 

[phaZed]

FF Works good for me also, I have maybe had a crash 1 or 2 times relating to Flash Player crashing.

Sometimes I find FF using 700-800MB when I leave Last.fm running in a tab for days, and then I restart FF.

 

[Simmy]

What extensions are you OP?

 

[Techlogon]

FF 6 and now 7 have been rock solid for me in XP (10 add-ons and all plugins except flash disabled) - not one crash in recent months and rarely goes above 400MB.

If you've been upgrading (in place) from FF 3 onwards then it may be time to do a full FF reinstall from scratch - or at least try a new profile with only the most common/necessary addons and see if that helps.

 

[humberpc]

Firefox has always been my fav browser. Chrome comes as close second. I just like the way FF renders the page. Plus the extensions are brilliant. Chrome is good as well, but some parts of it are not to my liking.

 

[ArtemusComputerTechnology]

Sure it is, crashing more. Alot of bugs and take up alot of processing in memory. When you have Firefox open, check out your task manager and check for yourself.

 

[stevenamills]

I've been wondering if others are seeing this. There are days when it seems nearly unusable.

I actually find myself using IE9 once in a while!!

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

I haven't had any problems with FF, but I have been using Opera lately. I like it so it might be an alternative for some of you.

 

[Knightsman]

weird.

I seem to be the only computer guy that uses 3 browsers depending on what im doing.

I use IE9, FF, and Chrome.

IE9 works best with Logmein, and misc tools

FF is more user friendly, but im tired of the delays...just stops at a webpage takes a couple of seconds then releases. I dont have that problem with IE and chrome.

 

[Metanis]

I also use 3 browsers. For a long time I was really happy with Chrome but then about version 16 it started doing a really poor job rendering pages. Firefox is slower for sure but I never have an issue with page rendering. Meanwhile I use IE9 for "official" Microsoft or on-line banking type business.