Can't stop browser from crashing
Hello all, I've been using Google chrome for quite some time, but lately it's been crashing all of a sudden, and the crash reports weren't helping me at all, so I switched to firefox. Unfortunately, firefox is crashing as well, about every 10 minutes or so. I sent in a report and this is one of the ids I got recently. Could someone help me out? Thanks!
ID: bp-a61321da-1672-424e-906a-d4e2f2130127
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- The plugin allows you to have a better experience with Microsoft SharePoint
- Google Update
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in Web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.8.638
- iTunes Detector Plug-in
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.6.636
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.5.635
- Next Generation Java Plug-in 10.5.1 for Mozilla browsers
- 5.1.10411.0
- Pando Web Plugin
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.6.1.629
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.1
- Unity Player 3.3.0f4
- NPWLPG
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
More Information
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/a61321da-1672-424e-906a-d4e2f2130127
Looks like that crash was probably caused by a McAfee driver filter - icf.dll .
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726114
IMO, of you have the same type of crash with both Chrome and with Firefox, you may have a hardware issue. The first thing you should do is use Memtest to test your RAM.
http://www.memtest.org/
Maybe do a malware check with some malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
- http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
- http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Microsoft Safety Scanner
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
- http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
- Kasperky Free Security Scan: http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
Question owner
It appears all of my crashes have had to do with the McAfee driver filter. What should I do to fix it?
You will have to disable McAfee Family Protection if that component makes Firefox crash.
You can check out the McAfee support forum for help.
Question owner
I already turned it off, as it makes my computer a little slow. Should removing it completely be advised?
If you do not want to use this program then you can uninstall it.