Fire Fox crashes very often

[niel]

On Friday 07 December 2007 23.06.06 Matthew Clarke wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Matthew Clarke

I have had problems with too many add-ons extensions at the same time.