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Problems with Firefox 2.0.0.12?
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Am I alone in seeing issues with this update?
There’s nothing concrete I can say except that my surfing can freeze for no particular reason and only one thing restores normal surfing - that is shutting down Firefox and re-opening it. Because I typically have four or more tabs open I’ve taken to crashing out so I get the option to restore my session.
To prove a point I’ve even fired up IE and that is still able to surf. Normally I might put it down to just my setup at home, but I’ve noticed my work setup is the same and secondly a friend I visited the other day showed the same symptom. Upon checking he had 2.0.0.12 and the resolution was to restart Firefox.
Am I alone? Will shortly check the Firefox support site just in case.
8 Comments
G
February 20th, 2008
at 2:20am
I haven’t had that problem, but I used to. The problem disappeared when I changed my software firewall. I was using Comodo, and then switched to Jetico’s last free version. No problems since then. Just a thought.
Even if you aren’t using Comodo, I’ve found that the first place to check is with the firewall. Over the years, they have been the most consistent source of software conflicts… by a large margin.
shausha
February 20th, 2008
at 11:03am
Ahh - hadn’t thought of that on my home PC, but my work setup doesn’t have a software firewall and my friend lives in that brave or foolish world of not having one at all!
TFTC.
G
February 20th, 2008
at 1:10pm
Second thing I would try is disabling all the extensions to see if you still have the problem. If it works fine after that, then enable them one-by-one. They are another common source of problems in Firefox.
If that doesn’t do it, then there might very well be a problem with the update. It just came out recently, so some issue might have slipped past them.
Tea
March 1st, 2008
at 11:10pm
I have the same problem and it drives me nuts.
Michael
March 13th, 2008
at 12:35pm
I just did a search for the same problem. Tried several other solutions. All extensions disabled, but problem still exists. IE works fine, but I did have to search for it on my computer. I had deleted all of the shortcuts.
shausha
March 14th, 2008
at 12:39am
As part of a semi-regular housekeeping exercise I have in the last week rebuilt my PC. The process for this is that all profiles, data files, etc are saved, but the windows / programs partiton is completely wiped.
So far since doing this my firefox 2.0.0.12 browsing sessions have not prematurely ended! Anyway, because I’m still using the same plugins, the same profile, etc - the only thing I can think is that some shared windows file is the culprit.
Steve
April 4th, 2008
at 3:42am
I had this problem when the update first arrived, but it seems to have sorted itself out.
Maybe some conflicting config entries or cookies caused this?
Now, however, I’m experiencing problems connecting to random domains: Firefox stops loading the page prematurely, resulting in displaying the page it “came from”. If i paste the URI for the page it refused to load into the title bar on a new tab or window, it still won’t load it.
Other browsers (IE7, Konqueror, Links) seem to have no problem finishing these troublesome domains.
I can’t remember if I experienced any Firefox crashes on my Gentoo installation yet, but it does fail to load some pages there too. (3 today)
I might switch to Opera; someone told me it’s less memory-hungry than Firefox.
shausha
April 5th, 2008
at 3:21am
Steve - I’ve not experienced the domain issue but can you recall any of the urls?
As to firefox being memory hungry, you are right but you can mitigate that. Have a look at this page: http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/24939/How_to_reduce_the_memory_usage_on_Firefox and follow those tips. Alternatively tryusing the firefox 3 beta as it has less memory leaks, etc.
Oh, and I fixed my crash issues with firefox by buying new and more RAM.