Mozilla Firefox Crashing

[GigaGreg]

Mozilla, dear mozilla...

I am using an old MacBook 13", and I dont know why Mozilla Firefox was always crashing on it, no idea for the solution, even old versions still crashed. So I had to choose the different web browser. Now I'm using the Google Chrome newest version and it dont crash at all, well obviously when the system is messy then everyting working slowly, but no crashes for Google Chrome.

Its not like i want to advert a Google Chrome, for example the new Maxton Browser is even better? But thats opinions, this browser is like Chrome + Firefox, but who knows if thats true?

 

[Genesis]

I'm totally Google averse ig, just because I know they're watching me and recording what I'm doing. Took me a LONG while before I made it my search engine of choice, and I have this awful feeling one of these days I'll be succumbing to Google Chrome as well. Darn!

 

[GigaGreg]

Well okay, so which browser you could recommend to me? FF is lagging and crashing so thats not an option, shall I try Maxton ? or go with Safari :diablo: ?

 

[Genesis]

Nope. Google Chrome is right on and the better one of the two. I tried it this holiday, and it is as good as you say it is and super fast. I'm just resisting it as I don't trust Google that much. But one of these days I'll probably also go for Google Chrome.

 

[GigaGreg]

Oh okays, no worries then I'll stick with Google then.

 

[ChickenFanatic]

genesis,
pity are not using linux-chrome was forked from the chromium browser which has all the goodness of chrome-but without all the marketing/e-stalking/branding nonsense of google.

firefox also has a fully GNU compliant/fully open source version called icecat,which again; has all the goodness of firefox without all the marketing/branding nonsense of firefox.
unfortunately its only available for linux no one seems to have been interested enough to port it to windows.


have had issues with firefox crashing before but had disabled all addons,and re added them one by one to find the culprit addon,some addons are actualy dodgy/not genuine,especialy greasemonkey scripts;theyre awful for being exploited by blackhat coders.

 

[GigaGreg]

@Chicken, that is good to know Thanks for the information, maybe some time i will try FF again.

 

[Genesis]

have had issues with firefox crashing before but had disabled all addons,and re added them one by one to find the culprit addon,some addons are actualy dodgy/not genuine,especialy greasemonkey scripts;theyre awful for being exploited by blackhat coders.

Thanks CF. Exactly what I did, except for adding them back one by one. I haven't got to that yet. But I did have that in mind. I can be a total procrastinator that way. Once everything was working well again, just didn't feel like jinxing it. I probably did not really need those plug-ins any way. The one I really suspect though was the one for downloading YouTube videos. I had a feeling there was a conflict between YouTube and Mozilla Firefox for that plug-in.

 

[jaran]

Latest Mozilla is really slowly at my PC. I prefer to use Opera right now.

 

[Genesis]

I'd say the initial first page of Mozilla's if I've logged out and shut down my computer, is slow. Like raising the Titanic. But once it's up it goes reasonably fast. I'm sticking with it for now, but probably will change to Chrome eventually.

 

[Justin]

I've found Mozilla Firefox also slower than usual. Happened gradually over the last two years, maybe because of all those bells and whistles of them. I can live with that however for now, but may also think of alternatives if Firefox should get slower than it is now, relative to what it was when it was much leaner.

 

[jaran]

I've found Mozilla Firefox also slower than usual. Happened gradually over the last two years, maybe because of all those bells and whistles of them. I can live with that however for now, but may also think of alternatives if Firefox should get slower than it is now, relative to what it was when it was much leaner.

Yes its true. Im just revert back to old version mozilla. I was trying to disable and tweak some features but still lock out it.

 

[robee29]

it happens to me all the time, so what I did was I uninstalled all plugins except Flash player and the Firebug (need this to do my programming)

 

[tim5]

try a clean Firefox re-install without add-on or any plugin... then slower add them one at a times, sometimes it's some weird plugin or addon that causes the crash. just avoid it and use alternative add-on.

 

[pan1]

I suggest you to backup your Mozilla extensions like addons, plugins, themes and bookmarks using FEBE than try to reinstall your Mozilla Firefox using Comodo Program Manager (CPM) to delete completed file and folder of Firefox.