A few days ago I mentioned I’ve been having some issues with Firefox 2.0.0.13 crashing. It seems like a few of you guys are having similar issues, and Kyle Kinnaman kindly posted the link to the 2.0.0.12 download.
Instead of downgrading to a previous version, I tried disabling all plugins except the needed ones: Duplicate Bookmark Finder, Adblock Plus, Linky, and Tab to Window. I’m not sure which plugin I disabled did the trick, but I have not had Firefox crash since I wrote that post.
Here’s the plugins I disabled:
If you have one of them why not turn it off and see if it does the trick? I’ve gone on various flash sites and it has yet to crash (before it crashed whenever I went on Youtube or other video sites). The only thing I haven’t tried is Java.
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April 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
So you no longer getting any page loading timeouts? I have crippling but sporadic delays even after disabling (and eventually uninstalling) every addon.
I’m going to try living without Firebug (not sure I can) and I’ll kill Yslow and see if that helps. My wife and I just had a baby, I’m slammed at work and I just haven’t had the energy to debug this. I thought maybe I’d managed to simultaneously demolish three PCs.
Thanks for the update.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Nah, no more weird timeouts. The browser seems to be running perfectly now - it’s a mystery indeed.
Congrats on the baby btw - make sure when it gets older you teach it how to debug software so strange bugs like this become a thing of the past