Firefox crashy?
Lately Firefox has been very crashy for me. In fact, it just crashed while I was writing a blog post about Couch and the optimizations of the view indexing portions of it. It was great post, I think I came up with a breakthough that will earn me millions and end all human suffering, I really can't say for certain. And now its gone, because Firefox crashed on me. dammit :(
Why so crashy? Buggy Extensions? Extensions are a big reason I use Firefox, but whatever the reason I'm kind of disappointed right now.
Update:
Just crashed again doing a refresh on a Yahoo page (BTW I'm running Firefox 1.0.4). I think it's the Flashblock extension that's crashing, I checked it's bug page and there are other reports of crashes on Yahoo pages, and those are pretty heavy with Flash ads. No wait, I just realized I've disabled that a couple of days ago and its still crashing. Alrighty then. I'm going to try uninstalling my own self written extension and see if things clear up, there's a good chance it might.
Posted June 17, 2005 7:29 PM
Comments
I'm running FF 1.0.4 with the Web Developer toolbar (latest), Greasemonkey, Colorzilla and View Formatted Source without a hitch.
Stan Rogers, June 17, 2005 9:46 PM
FF has been very crashy with my.yahoo the last two days. I noticed it too. Expect a red triangle soon.
andrew, June 19, 2005 12:19 AM
I've found writing blog posts through a browser to be clunky.
You could try using a desktop client to write your blog posts -- might be more reliable. I use w.bloggar. It plugs into the blogger.com API, as all of them do.
Nick Mudge, June 20, 2005 1:54 PM
Firefox has been crazy crashy for me lately. I thought it was just bad memory, but now that I see other people getting crashes, maybe it's not just that.
Nate, June 21, 2005 10:24 AM
Dunno about Firefox, but while your're figuring it out, I challenge you to game of Horseshoes.
HORSESHOES?!??
Ronnie, June 21, 2005 10:54 PM
This is why I just couldn't get into FireFox. It took such a long time to get all of the extensions just to get it to work like Opera, and then a bunch more time trying to configure everything, and by then it was crashing far too often.
Maybe I'll try it again in a year or so.
Chris Pine, June 23, 2005 11:24 AM
I had a lot of trouble with opera not displaying things correctly last time I tried it (admittedly that was a year or two ago). I find Firefox doesn't take much configuring, really. A couple tweaks to the default config... what extensions are you adding? (just curious)
Nate, June 24, 2005 3:12 PM
It's been pretty crashy for me as well. I've got greasemonkey running, but it crashed a fair bit even before that. Of course, I'm also forced to use novell :P and I blame it for Notes crashes, firefox crashes, just about everything! :)
Debbie, June 28, 2005 10:15 AM
Post a comment