Brodel Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Hi, lately my Firefox keeps on crashing whenever I go to Digg, it's not right away but it loads slowly and if I open more than two articles in tabs, it often crashes. The only things I can see that have changed are that I've upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.7, installed bookmark backup (because half my bookmarks vanished after the upgrade!) and the Digg page has been updated. I've tried disabling bookmark backup and switching back to Firefox 2.0.0.6 but still get the same error (pic below). The other extensions I use are Adblock Plus, Better Gmail, Dictionary Search, Download Statusbar, Fasterfox, Hyperwords, Gmail Notifier, IE Tab, Image Zoom, ReloadEvery and Talkback. Although they have all worked fine in the past. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix it I'd appreciate it as it's getting to be really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Try disabling ReloadEvery and TalkBack, then restart FF and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodel Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 Thanks, I've just tried that but still no luck. It keeps hanging for a bit and causing my CPU to spike. I'm not sure what it could be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Have you tried starting FF in Safe Mode via the Start Menu to see if that works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gollux Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Start by clearing your cache. It may be something that didn't properly download that's being reloaded and causing grief. Start in safe mode. If that makes it go away, disable all your add-ons and then add them back one by one until you find the culprit. Get the Quick-Java plug-in and shut off Javascript. Some of these websites are producing bad scripting. The more 2.0 it gets, the buggier it is. Some of them will cause Firefox to become unresponsive, if you view them in IE, they will throw an error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodel Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hi, I've tried starting in safe mode, cleared the cache, installed quick java and turned off Javascript but it still happens. I've noticed that up until it crashes there is only one instance of it running in windows task manager, as soon as it stops responding another instance appears. Does that give any clue as to what it might be? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 On your machine what happens when you view the same pages in IE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brodel Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 On your machine what happens when you view the same pages in IE? It's fine in IE, the pages (digg specifically) load faster too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts