New Gmail crashes Firefox


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Anyone having problems using the "new" version of Gmail with Firefox? I'm running the latest Firefox on Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu linux and Gmail crashes Firefox on a daily basis on both platforms. I have to switch to the "old" version every time I log into Gmail! What's up with that? :pinch:

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If I knew the solution, I would post it, wouldn't I? The article has a workaround to use the old version.

using the old version isn't exactly a solution...

but even the newsgroups don't have a solution to this, and it's been so long since they updated gmail. This is pretty stupid.

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Do we even know if it's limited just to Firefox? Does it crash in other browsers?

I suspect Gmail's AJAX isn't as clean as it could be, and apparently Firefox has problems handling large AJAX applications, so it's probably a combination of the two factors causing the crashes.

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  • 2 months later...
Problem solved! Finally! :woot:

The HTML Validator plugin was the culprit...just disable it for the domain "mail.google.com" and no more problems.

http://www.yurasko.net/wfy/2008/01/i-found...es-firefox.html

The only issue I ran into with Gmail was going into my spam folder. All other features worked. I'll have to try this. Thanks :)

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As a side note, I just noticed that I wasn't using the latest version of the HTML Validator plugin (0.8.4.3). I installed the latest version and I can't get Gmail to crash Firefox after unblocking mail.google.com. The bug in the plugin looks to be fixed.

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