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Multiple profiles, automated browsing results in crash

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I use 5 different profiles of Firefox at the same time. They all are browsing sites at a regular rate. A program Autoit uses handle ID's to navigate between them.

Firefox uses 25% of my RAM at that rate what i think isnt bad.

After an hour maximum on of the profiles hangs, RAM getting higher and crashes. (see reports).

I tried running in safe mode, same result. Its not site specific or profile specific. I tried version 16.01 and the beta version 17 with also the same result.

Before 16.01 i had no problem at all with this setup.

Can someone help me with this problem?

Thanks in advance!

I use 5 different profiles of Firefox at the same time. They all are browsing sites at a regular rate. A program Autoit uses handle ID's to navigate between them. Firefox uses 25% of my RAM at that rate what i think isnt bad. After an hour maximum on of the profiles hangs, RAM getting higher and crashes. (see reports). I tried running in safe mode, same result. Its not site specific or profile specific. I tried version 16.01 and the beta version 17 with also the same result. Before 16.01 i had no problem at all with this setup. Can someone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance!

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I often run multiple versions of Firefox at the sane time but do not automate that and am not aware what Autoit is also I prefer using Linux to Windows.

Unfortunatly the crash reports do not help in this instance they did not collect any useful information. I wonder if the problem is the use of Autoit if that is the only time Firefox crashes and it is not version or profile specific.

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Try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

Try to boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.


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.

You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.

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