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Since Firefox 4 Beta 4 was released and now with the newest Beta 11 Firefox just hangs at random. No particular page, no particular action, it can start to hang when loading a page, or simply when changing between tabs.

If I start Firefox 4 in Safemode it runs perfectly fine, for that reason I have tried to start up Firefox (normally) but with all Extensions and Plugins disabled. In that case it still hangs. I have also tried to start up with a clean profile with no results.

Does any body have an idea of what I could try next?

I made the mistake of upgrading to 3.6.9.

My computer is nearly unusable due to constant crashes (I've had hundreds). How can I roll back to a previous version? Evidently it's a known issue; I just want to go back to something that works.

Recently FireFox has begun crashing repeatedly and at unexpected times. Simply presenting me with a dialogue box saying 'FireFox has stopped working'. Vista 'tries to find a solution' but to no end.

The crashes seem to occur exclusively when new websites are opened, or when I trigger some means of new data transfer. For example, I can load a website successfully and leave it up for hours without crashing, however if I were to click a link from that page it would most likely crash.

No particular websites appear to cause the problem. Even clicking simply links from Google can cause it. Yet the same link a few moments later on a second try can work fine.

Finally, it seems that FireFox is causing other applications - that use it - to crash also. For example if I click a link that opens Windows Media Player, some times WMP will 'stop working' in the same way. If I download files and then attempt to open file location via FF's download box, Windows Explorer will 'stop working'.

I do not have any crash reports available, but help would be greatly appreciated.

Firefox crashes every time when I enable a flash plugin. It started today after an automatic attempt of updating shockwave. I've uninstalled flash and installed it again. Still the same story. There are no previous version of flash available on adobe site. What should be done?

I’ve stayed away from the newer Firefoxes, as my experience with 3.5 was poor, with its frequent crashes. However, I eventually went to 3.6.10 and had no problems.

Since 3.6.11, Firefox has crashed daily. Then, later that week, twice daily. Then, the following week, thrice daily. When 3.6.12 came out, I note that it crashes even more often, up to four times per hour.

This happens on both Windows XP and Windows Vista (I am entering this report and crash ID from the latter computer).

after upgraded to 3.6.6, firefox freezes on flash sites. After several right clicks it seems to unfreeze. Latest flash plugin already installed. Same happens on new profile & after clean mozilla installation. Any idea?

User Agent

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C)

Firefox 6.0 (release) has a memory leak.

Tested with 5 windows and 43 pages loaded and left overnight, it crashed after several hours. Able to fully repro this every time.

I left it for 10 mins after all pages loaded. I opened Task Manager and I can see the Memory (Private Working Set) increasing every few seconds.

I'm a simple soul. I had firefox 4.something on Vista - marvellous. Firefox 5 comes along and it doesn't say beta, so i naively assumed it would work cos the bugs had been ironed out. Very funny. And the funniest thing of all is that I'm told to report the faults to mozilla so they can fix them - over and over again - and yet they never get fixed! So what's the point in reporting them? What's the point in upgrading to firefox 5 if firefox 5 is full of bugs. I don't get it - for us non-technical mortals it just trashes mozilla's reputation.

Updated my Firefox to version 8 this morning, since then I have been unable to use Firefox. Each time I double-click my icon on my desktop, Firefox crashes. I can't click on any web links in emails otherwise Firefox crashes. Yes I have updated my plug-ins, updated Windows, done everything. Nothing works, and of course getting a hold of Firefox technical support is impossible since it doesn't even appear to exist. How wonderful it is to not even be able to use Firefox and check my sites I have bookmarked. I use Windows XP Professional, not the latest and greatest, but Firefox stated that version 8 is compatible with Windows XP. I have been reporting the crashes all day long, with zero response.

Gave in to the "nag" screen earlier this evening and "upgraded" to Firefox 14.0.1 from 13.0.1

And since then I've had multiple "not responding" problems. Just hangs, repeatedly. Whether I'm doing anything or not. On a variety of websites - planet-f1.com, bbc.co.uk, youtube (seems worst on youtube), facebook... pretty much anything I do. It's even hung on this page once. All I get is the "circle of doom", the "not responding" top of screen, and eventually the "whitewash of death" look.

I've disabled all my add-ons (not that I had many, mainly just adblock and flash) but no avail. Cleared cache and cookies.

Seriously tempted to go back to 13! Any other ideas?

When I open up FireFox 4 (both in normal mode and safe mode) it crashes within a few seconds. It is a fresh install of FireFox 4 but I also have FireFox 3.6 installed as well. The report that was given is:

Add-ons: elemhidehelper@adblockplus.org:1.0.6,{5F590AA2-1221-4113-A6F4-A4BB62414FAC}:0.45.6.20100202.1, :1.2,testpilot@labs.mozilla.com:1.0rc1,{8545daff-ad1e-493f-a37e-eed1ac79682b}:1.0,msntoolbar@msn.com:6.0,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:4.0b1 BuildID: 20100630141702 CrashTime: 1279002364 EMCheckCompatibility: true Email: micahn@internode.on.net FramePoisonBase: 00000000f0de0000 FramePoisonSize: 65536 InstallTime: 1278990773 ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: beta SecondsSinceLastCrash: 38 StartupTime: 1279002344 Theme: classic/1.0 Throttleable: 1 URL: http://en-us.start3.mozilla.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Vendor: Mozilla Version: 4.0b1

I have Windows 7 32bit

At the end of my rope with Firefox now. I've tried using Chrome, but it's buggy as hell with some of my sites and logmein doesn't work well on it (I telecommute a lot). IE is pants as well, because... well, it's IE (no extensions, no bookmarks toolbar etc etc)

So - after much experimentation, and using Chrome/Firefox about 50/50 I've ditched Chrome altogether. However, I'm frustrated as all hell that Mozilla appear to be completely ignoring the obvious memory issues that have been plaguing FF for aeons now. 3.6 is unusable after about six hours - memory use constantly rises to around 380Mb, then maxes out one of my cores and the browser hangs completely. That's every signle version of 3.6 I've tried.

3.5.x is a little better - I generally get around 18-20 hours' use out of it before the browser hangs and I have to restart it. I need to leave multiple windows open for various monitoring systems - it's a major, major pain in the arse to have to restart it (especially since it takes about 30 seconds to close it down then kill the (inevitable) hung process in task manager then start everything up again.

I have tried leaving FF open overnight with anywhere from between one to five tabs/windows open - but every single time I check after they've been open about a day, sure as eggs is eggs FF has crashed. I've done all the usual crap (I wasted days if not weeks on it before I got so pisse doff I went over to Chrome) like disabling all add-ons, running FF in safe mode, checking all my plugins are up to date etc etc etc - none of this had any effect.

It's insane - I have the fastest PC I've ever used at home (quad core running at 2.6Gh, 12Gb RAM, Win 7 x64) yet I'm still using a browser that feels and performs like it was written in the stone age.

Since I see dozens of other threads around similar to this - often with boilerplate responses from Mozilla volunteers condescendingly telling people to disable their antivirus client or start stopping processes one-by-one to try and find something else to blame - I don't expect there will be any official assistance or advice, but has anyone else figured out a way to get FF to stay well-behaved after being open for an extended period of time?

"The page isn't redirecting properly?"

i receive this warning on a daily basis. it seems to occur whenever i open a message  in gmail or try to send a message. anybody have a clue about this? thanks!

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

   *   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
         cookies.

Firefox 14 crashes when home page is set to google.com I have always had google.com as the home pages. everything was ok till this morning. as soon as i start the fire fox with Google as home page it crashes. On my other computer it has no problems at all. I can change the default settings to what I have always used but as soon as I change the home page it crashes and forces me to change all my settings to the default before I can use it again. i dont get any crash ID either.

I just got a new Sony vaio laptop. Firefox crashes on my everyday at least once or even several times in a day. I'm using the latest version of firefox and I'm pretty sure all my plug ins and extensions are up to date. I have been having this problem for 2 weeks now. I hope some one out there can help me out. Thanks Ray

Crash ID(s)

bp-99fc9e41-fbca-47df-a6e4-498562100731
bp-300c40c2-511e-4e72-9fd4-e819c2100730
bp-437ca605-9501-4651-b92e-75ac02100730
bp-deea25ac-164e-48a5-bcd6-d47102100729
bp-de442e33-ccf5-4d19-9528-c9b062100728
bp-81776d55-d8e2-4577-b39f-c31d62100728
bp-26a4b1f5-8385-40ab-a1a5-ad48f2100727
bp-46a98a4e-6965-45c4-8d36-9e38f2100727
bp-4802b2c1-6a94-46a8-a82b-d19f82100727
bp-4d87dfcd-00a9-482a-99db-284242100726
bp-aac430f9-6d15-41c2-86a7-341292100726
bp-9b435b14-f89a-4eb7-a6d4-9b9fe2100723
bp-25acd411-ae41-4c84-82e3-0ce5d2100722
bp-d5e8af62-259e-4d17-ab39-ff8392100722
bp-adcf9aec-e64c-421e-98e1-a16ba2100721
bp-0e91cebd-6bfd-43a1-93e4-a519d2100721
bp-836754f7-bb90-4009-a52d-ad7122100721
bp-9f83c10c-181b-4577-87c0-9acdd2100721
bp-6061aa5f-38a6-4d68-b1e4-587462100721
bp-faf0ca18-2f4c-4580-a941-5bb032100718
bp-6ffe4d9c-4802-485b-beb9-d23b22100717

I have a MacBook Pro and I firefox seems to be running extremely slow and the spinning wheel keeps appearing and I want it to continue to use Firefox but i will have to go back to Safari if it can't be fixed

A number of times when I use Firefox 4, it won't let me type and it won't respond to the cursor. When I exit and try to get back in, I get an error message saying "Firefox is not responding. You must stop Firefox or restart the computer."

Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.google.com.

      *   The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
         moments.

   *   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
         connection.

   *   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
         that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.