Firefox keeps crashing even though I tried everything to make it stop
My Firefox Browser crashes frequently on Windows 7, despite me having taken the following measures:
- Install the most recent driver for my video card, which is an experimental one since the support for my video card has been discontinued (needless to say, this didn't CAUSE the crashes, because it crashed already before, when the normal driver was installed)
- Disable all Add-Ons (obviously)
- Disable all possible forms of hardware acceleration or anything like that in the options of Firefox (obviosly)
- Re-install firefox a ton of times, partly re-setting all settings
- Enable swapping space on my SSD, even though I got 8 Gigs of RAM and never do anything computationally intense while browsing, and in fact I never really use up even 3 Gigs of it
- Re-installing Windows completely
- Run a virus scan
I should also say that I repeatedly ran a memory error detection tool, which didn't find anything. Curiously, Chromium will also crash frequently, so that Opera is basically the only browser I can run stably; but Opera won't even let me choose my own default search engine and includes a number of very annoying advertisements, whence I'd rather stick to Firefox if possible. Hence, I'd really be grateful for any help.
The following is a random crash report; it's already a bit dated, but I stopped sending them to Mozilla after a while since they didn't really seem to process it: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/052f952d-87dd-4915-ae25-eff881170606
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bp-052f952d-87dd-4915-ae25-eff881170606 Signature: XPCWrappedNativeScope::SuspectAllWrappers
Date Processed 2017-06-06 18:12:15
inproc_agent.dll = Kaspersky Inproc Agent
atidxx64.dll = Advanced Micro Devices = Check this link; http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64
Update Kaspersky. If the problem continues, disable it.
Attention: We need to see the most recent crash reports. Something one-month-old may not be the current issue.
In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>. Note: If any reports do not have BP- in front of the numbers/letters, click it to submit them.
The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.
Using your mouse, mark the most recent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Press the Reply button. Now go to the reply box and paste them in.
For more help on crash reports, see; https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-asking-support
Modified by FredMcD
Thanks, I disabled a Kaspersky daemon that should take care of scanning websites for malware. I suppose that makes my system less safe, but since I'm using NoScript and keep away from underground sites, I should be O.K.
Did the crashes stop?
The crash report is from Firefox 53 on Jun 6, 2017
Can you post some more recent crash reports?
The crashes had stopped until a few seconds ago, when the next one occured. The most recent crash report is here: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/88b7c71b-6cb6-4ccc-aaac-a0e621170704
bp-88b7c71b-6cb6-4ccc-aaac-a0e621170704 Signature: js::ConstraintTypeSet::sweep
inproc_agent.dll = Kaspersky Inproc Agent
atidxx64.dll = Advanced Micro Devices
This is for Sumo's Related Bugs 1287306 NEW --- SIGSEGV @ js::ConstraintTypeSet::sweep when archiving a message in Thunderbird 1112741 NEW --- crash in js::types::TypeObject::maybeSweep(js::types::AutoClearTypeInferenceStateOnOOM*)
Update Kaspersky. If the problemm continues, disable it.
There is nothing in the crashing thread that is related to Kaspersky, so it is unlikely that this software is causing the problem.
Remember that items that are flagged in the modules list merely mean that there are no symbols available to map an address to a line in the source code or to an entry in the DLL.
Boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support to see if that has effect in case security software is causing problems.
- http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-start-windows-in-safe-mode/
- http://www.7tutorials.com/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware. All these programs have free versions.
Make sure you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
- Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware:
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - AdwCleaner:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml - SuperAntispyware:
http://www.superantispyware.com/ - Microsoft Safety Scanner:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx - Windows Defender:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender - Spybot Search & Destroy:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Kasperky Free Security Scan:
http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
- Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller:
http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
- "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
None of the mentioned tests yielded a positive result (except a few trackers which were deleted by Spybot S&D).
The latest crash at least closed down only the current tab and not the whole browser. I wonder whether it's a new feature, it's a good one anyhow.
hi, maybe there's faulty hardware involved here. could you check the integrity of your RAM with a tool like from www.memtest.org?
As written above, I checked the RAM. BTW Now FF crashes fully again. (E.g. https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/e5ade29f-da16-4dac-aa5e-48ee30170706
Modified by DiracDeltaFunctional
I should add that all Firefox tabs crash once I attempt to edit Wikipedia.
Here are two crash reports for this problem:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/f72eb689-71f3-4d56-bb0d-5f8fd0170716
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/7c174e1c-09c0-4365-875b-194b20170716
Crashes are now so frequent that I'm forced to switch to Opera.
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The last set of crash reports weren’t sent to the Mozilla Servers.
bp-f72eb689-71f3-4d56-bb0d-5f8fd0170716 bp-7c174e1c-09c0-4365-875b-194b20170716 Signature: mozilla::dom::DOMProxyShadows
inproc_agent.dll = Kaspersky Inproc Agent
atidxx64.dll = Advanced Micro Devices = Check this link; http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop?os=Windows+7+-+64
Update Kaspersky. If the problem continues, disable it.
At the very least two crash reports have been sent to the respective servers, namely the two to which I already linked above. Finally, I already experimented quite a bit by installing new AMD drivers and even removing any AMD driver and Kaspersky completely. Nothing worked as yet, and I'm writing these lines from my Opera browser, since now Firefox crashes right when I start it.
Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.
A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?
Post any crashes using Safe Mode.
Here is a crash report from a safe mode crash:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/5b5e0eae-7f88-4095-a26f-94d8c1170717
bp-5b5e0eae-7f88-4095-a26f-94d8c1170717 Signature: XPCWrappedNativeScope::SuspectAllWrappers
inproc_agent.dll = Kaspersky Inproc Agent
This is for Sumo's Related Bugs 1261257 RESOLVED DUPLICATE crash in XPCWrappedNativeScope::SuspectAllWrappers
1261250 RESOLVED DUPLICATE crash in XPCWrappedNativeScope::SuspectAllWrappers
1261249 RESOLVED DUPLICATE crash in XPCWrappedNativeScope::SuspectAllWrappers
1261248 RESOLVED INCOMPLETE crash in XPCWrappedNativeScope::SuspectAllWrappers
Disable Kaspersky. Is the problem still there?
As I said, removing Kaspersky does not alleviate the problem. Here you find a crash report that was created while Kaspersky was uninstalled:
https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/8686f856-1701-4065-b182-276180170717
I called for more help.
May I hope that on one day, this issue may be resolved? Or will this be a dead end?
Modified by DiracDeltaFunctional