Fire Fox crashes very often

[Matthew Clarke]

On Dec 6, 2007 7:49 PM, Rajiv Vyas <rajiv1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi James:
>
> >Is there a particular type of page (page content) that  seems to
> freeze FF for you?
>
> That's the problem. There are no specific sites. But it is a
> particular site on a give day. Today, for instance,  FF crashes when I
> try to reply to an email on my company's Web-based email system. I've
> been using 7.10 since October and never had problems using my
> company's email. Other times, it could be a newspaper site that would
> take it down. It's pretty random.
>
>
> > Has this happened after an update but you haven't yet rebooted ubuntu? If this one, try rebooting and it may fix things
>
> I have rebooted my PC a few times but that doesn't solve the problem.
> Also, Ubuntu was a fresh install and not an upgrade.
>

Do you have google toolbar installed? I have recently troubleshooted
this on my gutsy system and that was the problem. Apparently the
ubuntu build of firefox on gutsy does not work well at all with the
google toolbar. It generally freezes on creation of a new FF
window/tab. I have not had a single freeze since disabling google
toolbar.

Current workarounds that I read about on the forums is to 1) disable
google toolbar, 2) install the mozilla build of firefox using
ubuntuzilla.

Cheers,
MC

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Matthew Clarke