Firefox Issue... Help? (Fixed. Ignore)

[The Dark Fiddler]

Alright folks, I feel kind of bad making a thread just for my computer problem, but the only general help thread I could find was way past the necromancy cutoff so... yeah.

Anyway, I have a problem with Firefox running on my Vista laptop. Everytime I try to copy anything from Firefox (Ctrl+C or right click > Copy), it crashes. Not really super urgent, but annoying. I was wondering if anybody could help and if anybody had the same problem (perhaps it's even a problem in the latest edition?). More information available upon request, because I was kinda scarce here (although I'm not the best tech guy, so anything that would be less than obvious to procure may require instructions).

Thanks in advance, helpful folks of the Playground.

[Samurai Jill]

Not sure this forum's the best place to look for tech support. I've no idea what the problem might be- sorry.

[raitalin]

Have you tried updating and/or reinstalling firefox?

[Eloi]

This is a really tough to solve problem so I suggest the following:
1. Go to Google.
2. Search for 'Google Chrome'.
3. Go to the appropriate download page.
4. Download Google Chrome.
5. ???
6. Google Chrome!

[Shas aia Toriia]

This is a really tough to solve problem so I suggest the following:
1. Go to Google.
2. Search for 'Google Chrome'.
3. Go to the appropriate download page.
4. Download Google Chrome.
5. ???
6. Google Chrome!

Hi, I'm Shas, and I approve of this message.

[Lupy]

@ ^ and ^^ Lies! Firefox is the one true Brower!

Uninstall and reinstall Firefox. Be sure you have 3.6.3

[Eloi]

@ ^ and ^^ Lies! Firefox is the one true Brower!

Uninstall and reinstall Firefox. Be sure you have 3.6.3

OR you can just install Google Chrome and save yourself a step.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Yeah, problem kinda fixed itself. Sorry for wasting your time everybody.

[lesser_minion]

This is a really tough to solve problem so I suggest the following:
1. Go to Google.
2. Search for 'Google Chrome'.
3. Go to the appropriate download page.
4. Download Google Chrome.
5. ???
6. Completely fail to profit!

FTFY. Firefox --> Chrome is not an upgrade in the slightest.

And it's hardly a "really tough to solve" issue. You don't know until you've tried.


Yeah, problem kinda fixed itself. Sorry for wasting your time everybody.

Isn't it kind of unfair to ninja people like that?

Well, for reference, the usual procedure for any crash amounts to:

Make sure that other programs that could be using the same services/daemons/libraries work. See if disabling plugins/extensions/userjs/usercss fixes the issue Make sure you're running the latest version Make sure your computer is clean (run a scan using a good AV suite and using MBAM) See if the problem can be fixed by a 'repair' install See if the problem can be fixed by a clean install.



@ ^ and ^^ Lies! Firefox is the one true Brower!

While it's (IMHO) better than Safari or Chrome, it's anything but "the one true Browser".

[Eloi]

FTFY. Firefox --> Chrome is not an upgrade in the slightest.

And it's hardly a "really tough to solve" issue. You don't know until you've tried.

I was being sarcastic/snarky when I said it was 'really hard problem to solve' and I acknowledge its not an upgrade, but I do honestly recommend Google Chrome.

[lesser_minion]

I was being sarcastic/snarky when I said it was 'really hard problem to solve' and I acknowledge its not an upgrade, but I do honestly recommend Google Chrome.

When Google start introducing reasonable security measures, start introducing reasonable user experience customisation, and start registering Chrome properly (it registers itself as a "common or garden app" at the moment), then I might recommend it for a small subset of users.

For now, it's nothing special. Everything it does is available elsewhere, and usually either better or "well enough".

[Eloi]

When Google start introducing reasonable security measures, start introducing reasonable user experience customisation, and start registering Chrome properly (it registers itself as a "common or garden app" at the moment), then I might recommend it for a small subset of users.

For now, it's nothing special. Everything it does is available elsewhere, and usually either better or "well enough".

Yes but all I care about is that its fast and able to support a large amount of tabs without crashing. No other browser I've used has done that.

[Jokasti]

I for one welcome our Google overlords.

[Worira]

How many tabs are we talking about here? Because I can run 10+ without problems in Firefox.

[Eloi]

How many tabs are we talking about here? Because I can run 10+ without problems in Firefox.

40+ all with videos and image-intensive sites.

[Mando Knight]

I run into bandwidth problems before I run into Firefox problems, really.

[bluewind95]

40+ all with videos and image-intensive sites.

I've had over 200 tabs open on Firefox, no crashing. And that was only on one window. I had some more in other windows. Curse TVTropes.

[Samurai Jill]

While it's (IMHO) better than Safari or Chrome, it's anything but "the one true Browser".
To be honest, I mainly use Safari because it fits with the Mac OS 'look and feel' better, and generally has a tighter UI design. I know it has no great advantages in terms of basic functionality or security measures.

[lesser_minion]

40+ all with videos and image-intensive sites.

Many. I run into signal problems well before Opera shows any sign of actually caring.

Why are we having a tabs arms race anyway?

No good browser will need to allocate so much memory for a single tab that it will run into heap issues, and parts of the tab's thread or process can be freed up as more of it is ready to be drawn.

Inactive tabs and the memory cache can be paged out to hard disk if necessary.

There's no obvious reason why opening lots of tabs would ever cause an issue.