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Firefox crashes on multiple websites, forcing a hard restart (battery removal) of my Nexus S.

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TheColdOne
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Firefox, even before 4.0, crashes hard on my Nexus S. Most recently it crashes on filmcow.com. I was browsing the web pages, hit back twice, and it froze. The other time I was browsing facebook. I was testing how firefox would compare to chrome in the android device when playing facebook games, and it failed miserably, since it froze while loading. Both times forced me to remove the battery from my phone to get it to turn off.

Firefox, even before 4.0, crashes hard on my Nexus S. Most recently it crashes on filmcow.com. I was browsing the web pages, hit back twice, and it froze. The other time I was browsing facebook. I was testing how firefox would compare to chrome in the android device when playing facebook games, and it failed miserably, since it froze while loading. Both times forced me to remove the battery from my phone to get it to turn off.

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Matt Brubeck
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This seems to be caused by a bug in Android 2.3.2 and earlier, which is fixed in the Android 2.3.3 update. For details, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643878

TheColdOne
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Ok that helped in finding an update solution.

http://blog.vpetkov.net/2011/03/11/google-nexus-s-update-manually-to-2-3-1-2-3-2-and-2-3-3/

That helped me manually update my phone to 2.3.3, and so far it seems to be working, albeit still slower than the default browser (whish is sad, because I love some of FF4's features).