Firefox on 16.04 crashes over and over and over

Chris cpollock at embarqmail.com
Tue Jul 24 00:57:16 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 16:36 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 3:45 PM Chris <cpollock at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 14:56 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > I'm getting multiple crashes daily on two different instances
> > > ("profiles") in Firefox, and on multiple machines, and have been
> > for
> > > a month or so.  It asks me for information to send with the crash
> > > report, which I did at first, but I've given up.
> > > 
> > > About the only thing even slightly special about my useage is
> > that I
> > > have multiple tabs, and sometimes multiple windows.  The crashes
> > come
> > > most often when I'm not even using the computer, but come back to
> > > find a crash dialog on the screen.
> > > 
> > > Anyone else having this?
> > > 
> > > Anyone care to suggest other browsers?
> > > 
> > > ++ kevin
> > > 
> > Why not go through and start with Add-ons disabled (safe mode). If
> > it
> > doesn't crash then restart, disable all extensions then manually
> > enable
> > them until you get the crash. Have you looked at the output of the
> > crash report that FF generates to see if it gives you a clue?
>  
> That seems like it could be a good idea, but I do not know how to
> find that crash report. 
> 
On the address bar type about:crashes you'll get a listing of the
crashes you've had. Click on the one you want to look at. Here's some
info - https://superuser.com/questions/583988/where-can-i-find-a-mozill
a-firefox-crash-log


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Chris
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