Firefox shuts down for no reason...

DuckRacer · Feb 16, 2006

Lately, I've been getting these messages occasionally:

Then Firefox shuts down. And I lose all the tabs I had open, and then I have to reopen them again. And I have to put all the things back in my shopping cart if I was shopping on Amazon or whatever.

I have these extensions:
Adblock Filterset.G Updater
Adblock
gTranslate
Fasterfox
Tab Mix Plus
ImageShack right-click
Google Toolbar for Firefox
Sage
SearchPluginHacks
NoScript
ImageBot
ReloadEvery
Bookmark Duplicate Detector
Gmail Notifier

Any solutions to this problem?

Anderton Prime · Feb 16, 2006

Don't want to sound patronizing, but what else are you running when you have Firefox open? Browsers take up a huge amount of RAM and I know Firefox will just shutdown if there are too many applications running.

Not sure those extensions have much effect on your computer, but maybe try reinstalling Firefox or look online for an older version that doesn't crach so often...

Also, what OS are you running?

RobcioPL · Feb 16, 2006

I have that happening with Windows Explorer......but i use firefox anyway

240Z · Feb 16, 2006

Are you using 1.5? I've been noticing some small bugs present in this version that were not in the previous release. I've been experiencing some shutdowns, as well as annoying little things like the bookmarks window making you select the category again before adding a bookmark, toolbars not staying closed on restart, etc.

DuckRacer · Feb 16, 2006

I'm using Windows XP Home, FF 1.5.0.1, AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 512 MB of RAM.

When this usually happens I don't have anything else open, and this still occurs after I uninstall and reinstall everything.

I'll try looking for an older version, though.

RobcioPL · Feb 17, 2006

Firefox sometimes is a mermory hog.

DuckRacer · Feb 17, 2006

I don't think it's even memory. When the page was fully loaded, it was idle for 5 seconds, and then it shut down.

VT · Feb 18, 2006

I'm getting this as well. From what I can tell it has nothing to do with hogging memory because I've had it crash after loading google. Right after it crashed seconds before. Right after I booted up my computer. It gets rather annoying and I'm considering switching over to Opera for good.

The only thing I can think it might be is a memory leak.

Oh .. and its nothing to do with the extensions or themes or anything in Firefox. The only extension I use is adblock and I've had it crash before I installed adblock.