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Firefox crashes

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nachtmusik
nachtmusik

Firefox crashes sporadically, maybe once a week it will crash and I lose all my tabs. I have the latest version of Firefox, have updated all my plugins, have active malware protection, BitGuard is not installed on my computer. Is there a limit to how many tabs Firefox can support? It seems to happen more when I have lots of tabs open.

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Firefox crashes sporadically, maybe once a week it will crash and I lose all my tabs. I have the latest version of Firefox, have updated all my plugins, have active malware protection, BitGuard is not installed on my computer. Is there a limit to how many tabs Firefox can support? It seems to happen more when I have lots of tabs open. bp-938cfcd0-6e0f-4154-b62e-ae7a82140620

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FredMcD
FredMcD

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} While you are in safe mode; Press the <Alt> or <F10> key to bring up the tool bar. Followed by;

Windows; Tools > Options Linux; Edit > Preferences Mac; application name > Preferences

Then Advanced > General. Look for and turn off Use Hardware Acceleration.

cor-el
cor-el
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This looks like an out-of-memory crashe where Firefox is no longer able to allocate enough memory.

  • Firefox 30.0 Crash Report [@ OOM | large | mozalloc_abort(char const* const) | mozalloc_handle_oom(unsigned int) | moz_xmalloc | nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::GetPrefixes(unsigned int*, unsigned int**) ]