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Firefox crashes when opening a pdf

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Also crashes when I open certain websites, like ESPN. Maybe the adobe flash player problems.

Adobe reader is set as my pfd viewer. Everything is up to date.

Restarted in safe mode and still has the problem. Last few crash report ids:

bp-b275840e-7b68-4ec2-85f8-36db02150410

bp-4aedc496-2e6f-4ee6-acb1-182292150410

bp-41560b49-ce16-4490-803d-dc8382150410

bp-98ddfd36-c23c-41dc-be25-c9bae2150409

bp-7345a5a5-358f-432f-a524-d134b2150409

bp-5493e57f-1b6a-4a6b-800e-cbb3f2150409

bp-51deb553-5cf2-4b68-825c-3b6762150409

bp-3e124567-e164-4565-8f61-fb7642150409

Also crashes when I open certain websites, like ESPN. Maybe the adobe flash player problems. Adobe reader is set as my pfd viewer. Everything is up to date. Restarted in safe mode and still has the problem. Last few crash report ids: bp-b275840e-7b68-4ec2-85f8-36db02150410 bp-4aedc496-2e6f-4ee6-acb1-182292150410 bp-41560b49-ce16-4490-803d-dc8382150410 bp-98ddfd36-c23c-41dc-be25-c9bae2150409 bp-7345a5a5-358f-432f-a524-d134b2150409 bp-5493e57f-1b6a-4a6b-800e-cbb3f2150409 bp-51deb553-5cf2-4b68-825c-3b6762150409 bp-3e124567-e164-4565-8f61-fb7642150409

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Hello James.Lester Does the same issue happens with different browsers or just FF?

Can you please open a Task manager, go to performance and then open a Firefox and go to a ESPN website and keep an eye on Performance and see what it shows when the browser crashes, i want to make sure its not a Memory issue.

Best Regards

JK

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Thanks for your help. This issue only happens in FF. The memory seems to stay pretty consistent when I am using firefox, staying between 1.4 and 1.6 GB. ESPN is no longer crashing for me, but another website that crashed my browser yesterday is still crashing.

https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus

Opening a pdf still crashes FF.

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Here are two recent crash reports. The first is from trying to open a pdf:

bp-c0ac7998-a822-46c2-97b3-40a962150413

The second is trying to open a website that must have some sort of adobe flash player.

bp-9cfdb2ac-65ea-42ba-9f70-7cc8d2150413

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You can try to disable the HTML5 media player by setting these prefs to false on the about:config page.

  • media.windows-media-foundation.enabled
  • media.directshow.enabled

There are also media.mediasource.* prefs that you can possibly try to toggle to disable this feature.

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Still having this problem. Any help?