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I've been using Firefox for many years with no problems. Recently, there have been frequent tab crashes. I've noted this problem before, and sent reports, but no fixes ever seem to be forthcoming. This makes me question whether I should continue using Firefox. The times I've switched to Edge, it hasn't crashed.

Firefox keeps locking up, for want of a better description. It will minimize itself, and when I go to click on it, it will not open/maximimize or let me use it. It then also won't allow itself to be closed (by using the only option available, the x on the taskbar icon). I end up having to restart my computer to get it to go away and then work properly (for a little while) when I restart. Firefox used to be my favorite browser, but I'm getting really frustrated. It's updated and still won't work properly. Help. Please.

I cannot open any web sites from the Mozilla Firefox on my computer. Every attempt gets the message :tab has crashed. Will I need to abandon using Firefox if this is an unfixable problem?

For many years, I have been exchanging video calls on Facebook.

Recent attempts to video call the same person I've been video calling for the past 3 years result in "your browser doesn't support video calls"

Have I been "hacked"?

Please explain.

Could a real person answer this question for me, please? Thank you.

I have notebook no issues, My Desktop however I get tabs crashing with firefox, Apache Open Office but not with Doc files in open office and not with chrome and Edge they run without any issues. My computer is awsome it seems to me this version of firefox is either being pushed out or its not coping with large loads. I removed all of my 32gb ram tonight just to test the ram my ram is fine. Device name DESKTOP-BHJKNN8 Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K 3.00 GHz Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.8 GB usable) Device ID BC98C705-94DE-45B6-9B43-D6A374085D75 Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA621 System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 24H2 Installed on ‎12/‎11/‎2024 OS build 26100.3194 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.48.0

I have been with you since the netscape days and I prefer your features butthe browser needs a rebuild with the current look and workings and also the other benifits chrome offer with pdf etc Thank you for reading this. Bill Shannon

12-25-24

Over the past few weeks, tabs keep crashing several times a day. It happens most often on X, but this morning, a tab crashed while completing an online order (grrr). My computer is up to date, cookies, cache and history cleared regularly and today I "refreshed" Firefox. In less than an hour, tab crashed again. What is going on???

I'm very close to changing browsers.

Since updating to version 135 all the tabs crash. I've uninstalled\reinstalled, deleted app data, disabled AV and created a new profile. The only time it works is in troubleshooting mode. I've looked at extensions and plugins and I'm only seeing OpenH264 video codec and Widevine content decryption. I've disabled those but still get the crashed tabs.

I'm also not generating any crash logs.

I'm getting constant crashes with my browser getting the crash reasons EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION_READ EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT

bp-ca567c36-1525-4fea-a203-726240250403

bp-3d0504eb-70ae-4fd2-ba61-2d00b0250403

bp-9ac6b23d-8845-41f0-ac77-ff48c0250403

bp-a27c0adb-29f0-42e3-af96-fdc2b0250403

bp-a0c9a1be-a9a8-4401-8914-6e5c70250403

My screen has been zoomed so I only see half of the email or image. Support at yahoo said that this is a Firefox issue. I would like to"unzoom" so I can see the full screen ar one time.

Endless crashes, going on for months (4-5) and no sign of any fixes. As far as I'm concerned, Firefox is totally broken and I'll have to switch away. It's unusable. A crash every ten minutes.

Firefox crashes constantly when I load it mostly when in youtube though. I notice so I am not sure what is causing it to crash it could be ublock origin as I use that to block ads on youtube that is the only thing I can think of or maybe the return dislike button but here is my crash report below ID bp-8f27f4a1-7ed0-492e-823d-e57af0250304

pc specs CPU 14900k Intel Core I9 Power supply EVGA 1600W Ram Memory 64gb DDR5 corsair STORAGE 1TB samsung 980PRO GPU RTX 5090 FE OS WINDOWS 11 Newest Version 3H I think

Firefox has been running smoothly for the last 6 months. Recently I started receiving Firefox Crash Reporter dialog boxes when opening the app. The app never opens, but I receive three crash reporter dialog boxes.

What I have tried: Repair Reinstall Deleted every Mozilla folder in App cache and other device locations. Did another reinstall. App never loads and I receive a crash report. Updated Windows. Restarted laptop. Etc. Everything else on the device runs perfectly.

BuildID: 20241209150345 CrashTime: 1734010834 InstallTime: 1734010218 ModuleSignatureInfo: {"Mozilla Corporation":["firefox.exe","mozglue.dll"],"Microsoft Corporation":["msvcp140.dll","VCRUNTIME140.dll"],"Microsoft Windows":["CRYPTBASE.dll","bcrypt.dll","crypt32.dll","version.dll","fltLib.dll","ucrtbase.dll","KERNELBASE.dll","bcryptPrimitives.dll","rpcrt4.dll","msvcrt.dll","sechost.dll","kernel32.dll","advapi32.dll","ntdll.dll"],"SentinelOne Inc.":["InProcessClient64.dll"]} ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox ReleaseChannel: release StartupTime: 1734010834 SubmittedFrom: Client Throttleable: 1 UptimeTS: 0.0 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 133.0.3 WindowsErrorReporting: 1 This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

I got this new Chromebook, and now I'm having issues using YouTube. When I select a video to watch, a message pops up at the top saying "To play video, you may need to install the required video codecs." I am able to watch the video I selected anyhow, with some minor issues with the picture and its frames I believe, however, when I try to watch a different video, it does not work. Sometimes it will play for a short bit, but will then stop, and start buffering. When I then refresh the page, the video will not play and will only buffer. I am not sure what to do, and if this is an issue with the browser, or the device itself, please help?

I keep constantly crashing, multiple times. Here are my latest crash IDs:

bp-0095be94-4487-4e51-b895-8bfe30250106

bp-cc9fbd3f-9c73-4a9b-9e67-a503b0250106

bp-46a54455-3bd3-4eb1-8cdf-887300250106

bp-9d721d1d-f4e3-4e7b-9160-ec47e0250106

bp-f307e36d-2c7b-4fad-9166-47cef0250106

bp-3e823f9a-bcb3-458f-b149-94a110250106

When I open firefox, or try to go to any page at all, all that I get is the tab crash reporter.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled, including removing all old profiles. So I now have no extensions or add-ons enabled. I have disabled hardware acceleration.

firefox does run successfully in troubleshooting mode, so that must be doing something different. But I have not been able to make it run out of troubleshooting mode.

There is nothing in about:crashes, or in AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports

What could be going wrong?

When I press a hotkey that involves Ctrl (ie. opening a new Tab via Ctrl+T or closing one via Ctrl+W) Ctrl sometimes remains stuck until I press it again. This will cause issues ie. when I open a new tab and try to type a new address (or search term), and Ctrl causes new hotkeys to be executed.

I've even tried launching firefox with a new profile, and on safe mode (firefox --safe-mode -p <something-else-than-usual>), so no bookmarks, cookies or extensions should be causing this, and it will still happen sometimes. The annoying part is that this seems to be an issue with performance. It happens less-often with the empty profile and safe mode, but it still happens, especially if I had just opened a new page some tab, causing the most minute thing for firefox to process.

The problem is probably not the computer specs either (below my specs). Indeed, from what I can tell, firefox does not even seem to function particularily slow in any case. Just this ctrl being stuck seems to happen.

I have also tried disabling hardware-acceleration (and explicitly enabling it), no effect.

Other interesting facts I've discovered: - This for sure does not happen in other programs and - This does not happen with the Ctrl for all the keybinds within firefox. For example, Ctrl+A (for select all) does not trigger this

From neofetch my setup is OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Host: MS-7C56 1.0 Kernel: 6.12.8-arch1-1 Uptime: 2 hours, 10 mins Packages: 2370 (pacman), 7 (flatpak) Shell: zsh 5.9 Resolution: 3840x2160 DE: labwc:wlroots WM: sway Terminal: alacritty CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X (24) @ 4.951GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 7900 XT/7900 XTX/7900 GRE/7900M Memory: 5531MiB / 32015MiB

(I have no idea why it's reporting that I'm using Sway, I'm most certainly only using labwc, maybe labwc just reports sway for some programs for compatibility) I've installed firefox from pacman, and my current version is firefox 134.0.1-1

And finally firefox --full-version Mozilla Firefox 134.0.1 20250113214611 20250113214611

I'm not sure what else I could share at this point

I get random crashes while streaming video (for example youtube). I am using a laptop with 2 GPUs (integrated AMD and dedicated Nvidia) and a secondary monitor. If the Firefox windows is on the laptop display I never get crashes but on the secondary display I get around 1-2/hour. Also, this only happens with hardware acceleration enabled in Firefox settings, if I deactivate it then the issue is gone. I think it runs on the AMD integrated graphics, based on what I see in task manager. I also have uBlock origin, haven't tried deactivating it yet. The crashses consist in a black screen from which I can only recorver by doing a hard reset.

Any suggestions on what to try?

A few days ago, trying to free up some memory and improve my computer's performance, I deleted the cache and tracking cookies from Firefox (using AVG TuneUp). Since then, I can only load a certain, variable number of tabs and/or pages without every new or reactivated tab or page claiming to have crashed (although about:crashes says that no reports have been submitted). Restoring those pages seems impossible without restarting Firefox or the whole computer. The problem persists in Troubleshoot mode, but as far as I can tell doesn't affect Chrome, although that used even more RAM. I've tried culling open tabs (of which I still probably have far too many, but it's never been an issue before), using the OneTab extension to reduce them to lists of URLs, disabling and re-enabling hardware acceleration, updating Firefox, checking for file corruption and RAM errors and even uninstalling and reinstalling the program, but nothing's worked so far. What might be going on, and what else can I try?