Do you have any crash report IDs, they may help somebody identify the cause of the crashes. For details of how to find the crash report IDs see Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly).

sorry tony, neg, it happens 2-6 times a day and i do send the crash reports to firefox... i assumed it was an issue with the at time new FF. ill log the next one - tks

If you type about:crashes into the location bar and press enter it will list the submitted crash reports. If you copy and paste some of the recent report IDs it should hopefully help to identify the cause.

blimey! tks tony, three most recent though oddly no later than april 26

http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-9adc1bea-103b-4a36-8eb2-f0e902110426

http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-3017f388-fda8-442b-bcd1-d15ec2110426 http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-a6f17ad2-57eb-4188-9f96-183bc2110426

cheers t

one thought... might it be the typically 20+ tabs i have open?

I checked the crash reports but could not establish the cause of the crashes. The number of tabs open is unlikely to have an impact upon this.

One of the associated bug reports indicates that it may be related to extensions. Try the procedure in the following link to start Firefox in safe mode and see if it still crashes. If it does not crash in safe mode it indicates that an extension may be causing this.

https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

many tks tony, ill give it a whirl. must say its been stable since i posted yesterday (typically!) but fingers X. and once again, tks for yr input.