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Hello all.

I'm running into frequent tab crashes, very commonly on pages that have a lot of elements, or things to render on the page.

Specifically, I am being challenged by gmail, where switching to my inbox will 100% crash my tab.

Here are a few crash reports to look at from this gmail example. It is not gmail alone that causes this, other websites such as Zillow, youtube, etc. Pages that contain a lot of information and pictures typically cause this.

https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/d4965ad5-0592-4b0a-bc67-4e8080260328#tab-details https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/f48490e0-6aaf-423c-80a1-e2aaf0260328#tab-details

I also want to mention that I have the exact same profile loaded onto another machine, and I experience no issues. I do not believe this is an extension issue, but I am open to disabling all of them and generating more crash reports if anyone would like for me to try that.

What stuns me the most in these crash reports is the reported amount of "available virtual memory" exceeding far beyond what I have available on my machine. Can anyone help pinpoint what about my system would keep making Firefox think I have this much available virtual memory?

Thanks for any advice and help!

After new update my Firefox is completely bricked. I can't do anything with it, it just wiped all of my tabs out and now I can't open any, search or do anything.

All my settings are blank, running private doesn't help. If I right click a tab, it shows up with "new" and all of the other opens are blank.

It first happened after the update, only my first and last tab had titles. All the other tabs open turned blank, and could not be accessed. Then the second time I accessed them, they had all disappeared.

Tried reinstalling, didn't help.

On desktop, but had to make this on mobile because I can't even get to the support website.

My firefox has been closing while I am away from my computers. I have a few computer running linux (Ubuntu 24.04) and one in mac osx (Big Sur). Usually, I can start firefox and it will remember my tabs which is annoying but still manageable. However, once in a while, (which happened yesterday), all the firefox closed on all the computers and it forgot my tabs when I start firefox again.

I have already set app.update.auto to false on all of the firefox instance prior to this incident to avoid firefox update would close out firefox itself. So if anyone has any idea of what to check to see why firefox keep closing and/or why once in a while it will not remember my tabs, I would really appreciate it.

Hello,

I would like to report a potential bug in Mozilla Firefox related to recent updates.

After downloading a PDF file and opening it directly in the browser, the tab crashes. Following this crash, it becomes impossible to open any files (regardless of file type) within the browser — every attempt results in another tab crash. The crash report cannot be reviewed, as the tab fails immediately and can only be closed.

As a temporary workaround, changing the default PDF handler to an external application prevents the issue. However, this is not a viable solution for us, since some of our internal systems require PDFs to open directly in the browser after download.

We have verified that this issue does NOT occur in version 148.0.2 — everything works correctly there. However, after updating to version 149.0, the problem reappears consistently. Firefox also automatically updates after synchronization, making it difficult to remain on a stable version.

According to the release notes, there were changes in PDF handling in recent updates, so this may be related to a technical regression.

Could you please investigate this issue or advise on a proper fix or workaround?

Best regards, Daniel Mazur VanityStyle IT Specialist

All firefox windows just disappear after a random amount of time. Where can I look for possible logs of what's happening. Didn't see anything obvious in Event Viewer>

I get the message: We're Sorry Firfox had a problem and crashed. We'll try to restore your tabs and windows. To help us diagnose and fix this problem, you can send us a crash report. I sent the crash report multiple times.

I added a screenshot of my MacBook Air info.

The details are: AvailablePhysicalMemory: 1700704256 AvailableSwapMemory: 0 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20260216153405 CrashTime: 1773448580 DOMFissionEnabled: 0 DOMIPCEnabled: 0 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1772203700 LastStartupWasCrash: 1 MacAvailableMemorySysctl: 75 MacMemoryPressure: Normal MacMemoryPressureCriticalTime: Unset MacMemoryPressureNormalTime: 1773448580 MacMemoryPressureSysctl: 1 MacMemoryPressureWarningTime: Unset MozCrashReason: MOZ_CRASH(NS_ERROR_OMNIJAR_OR_DIR_MISSING) ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox PurgeablePhysicalMemory: 248750080 ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 15923 StartupCacheValid: 0 StartupCrash: 1 StartupTime: 1773448579 SubmittedFrom: Client Throttleable: 1 TotalPhysicalMemory: 8589934592 UptimeTS: 1.104864563 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 148.0 This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

Moderator note: This question has been edited to fill the Firefox version field (based on the info submitted).

I've got constant crashes jn last update Firefox 148.0.2 (Desktop). Often it happens when Google Meets launched in browser and i started switch between tabs or another applications. In Widows logs i found this error: Имя сбойного приложения: firefox.exe, версия: 0.0.0.0, метка времени: 0x00000000 Имя сбойного модуля: unknown, версия: 0.0.0.0, метка времени: 0x00000000 Код исключения: 0xc00000fd Смещение ошибки: 0x00007ffce9d07286 Идентификатор сбойного процесса: 0x0x3F64 Время запуска сбойного приложения: 0x0x1DCB6A7BAE6121F Путь сбойного приложения: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe Путь сбойного модуля: unknown Идентификатор отчета: 1a851f87-1b94-4270-8d86-a6850200a62b Полное имя сбойного пакета: Код приложения, связанного со сбойным пакетом:

Installed system Windows 11

This has started a few days ago. I'm running Firefox Desktop on Windows 11. Browsing is perfectly normal, until I try to watch a video in full screen mode. It plays normally for a few seconds and then my whole system freezes, with no response to any action except for hard reset. This has never happened to me before, and all other browsers I try do not demonstrate the same problem. Is there any solution other than changing browser permanently?

Dear Mozilla Support Team,

I have downloaded Firefox through the official website and I have installed it through the terminal for Chromebook's Debian Linux.

I have a Chromebook c214ma with a Intel Celeron 4020 with 4 GB ram every single browser on my machine works properly just Firefox keeps closing and crashing

Kindly fix this issue

Regards,

Pranav

Following https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-crashes-closing-or-quitting

Crash Reports (Newest to Oldest, starting with troubleshoot mode: https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-c5831b14-736e-4a37-a0f5-9eb170260310 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-ed2fcada-4566-4a83-9adb-5554d0260304 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-74a45b0c-663a-4c0d-981a-460cd0260304 https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/report/index/bp-98feeed5-7fef-4c7b-aaa9-562930260303

Occurs since end February, so probably since 148.0-1 Always in the same place in libgio-2.0.so.0

I will try to roll back to 147.0.4-1

• OS: Debian (trixie)
• Firefox version: 149.0b3

Firefox suddenly crashes without any displayed error. Attempt to troubleshoot it in "safe mode" doesn't help (it also suddenly crashes.

• When I had redirected following output: "Exiting due to channel error."
• after restart, I launched "about:crashes", but there were no entries

When I try to go into my google account for any reason and a few other websites, it will say use passkey or try another way. I have done both several times and Firefox ALWAYS FREEZES and I have to force quit. I have reinstalled Firefox, gotten rid of all cookies and cache, gotten rid of extensions and everything I could do from the help website but nothing seems to work. I have also reinstalled Firefox but the same thing keeps happening. I need HELP!

Not sure if "browse" is the correct topic but here we go:

After a random crash (I don't remember the details, been a while) I've "refreshed" Firefox. Following that I started to have some problems with Google Meet. Haven't had any for years and suddenly when i open Google Meet (working from home and using Google Meet as an online meeting platform daily), everything becomes unresponsive. I can't change tab, cannot close Firefox from the close button, nothing. I open the Windows Task Manager and End Task manually to close the window so I can restart the browser. After restarting Firefox and launch Google Meet, it doesn't crash.

The other problem is when I try to watch something on Netflix, I hear the sound, see the subtitles but the video content is not present. It's just black screen with UI on it. Yes, I checked the DRM setting and no, other streaming services that I use don't have this problem. I can bypass this by launching Firefox in troubleshoot mode but I want to use my extensions. I even tried to enable them one-by-one to see if anyone causing problems but even when I disable all of my extensions like in the troubleshoot mode I'm still having the same problem.

I tried several solutions that I found on reddit etc. but nothing worked so far. I also re-installed Firefox and nothing changed.

Please help me before I lose my mind (:

A user I am servicing uses Firefox every day. They are on Windows 11. Every afternoon (sometimes at other times), Firefox stops working and loses its internet connection (everything else on their computer continues to be connected).  When they close and restart Firefox to reconnect, it then tells me the user that they are using an old profile and need to create a new one.  They're able to re-log into their Firefox account, which eventually resyncs all their data, but they then have to re-sign into everything, which is a major inconvenience.  The only workaround the I have found is to reinstall Firefox, ever time this happens which then allows the user to use all their settings until they have to repeat the process the next day (i.e., everything remains signed in and/or logging back in is easier than described above).

Firefox is CONSTANTLY crashing now and I'm about ready to switch to another browser unless someone can give me a reason to stay.

Moderator note: This question has been edited to clarify OS version (based on crash reports).

Windows 2026-02 Preview Update (KB5077241) causes Acer laptop to crash when firefox opens when computer is started. Only on this laptop, other computers are unaffected. Firefox is the newest version and like mentioned, all other computers run the same security programs and vpn. The windows update needed to be uninstalled on the Acer laptop for it to operate correctly.