Firefox crashes a lot

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I've seen FF crash on Linux when viewing flash animations with sound,
that might be related to arts vs. oss, but I'm not sure.

On 6/9/06, Terence Chang <peanutlen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am pure Windows user. I have been using Firefox 99.9% of time, except my
> wife is using IE.
>
> I only have firefox crash issues with Flash and Adobe Acrobat Reader every
> once a while.
>
> Firefox is still the best.
>
>
> Kurt Granroth <plug-discuss at granroth.org> wrote:
>  On Friday 09 June 2006 07:25, Lynn Newton wrote:
> > I'm just looking for verification that I'm not the only person for
> > whom Firefox crashes often, in my case three or four times a day.
> > Sometimes more.
> >
> > I'm running version 1.5.0.4 on SuSE Linux 9.2 on x86-64 (AMD 64)
> > architecture. I'll admit that I drive it pretty hard -- Usually have three
> > windows open on three slots in my virtual desktop, anywhere from
> > two to ten or more tabs per window, stuff like RSS (Sage) and a
> > fistful of extensions (Customize Google, FlashGot, WebDeveloper,
> > Tab Mix Plus, Image Zoom, ViewSourceWith, Google Toolbar for
> > Firefox, Google Notebook, also a bunch of Ajax driven stuff --
> > gmail, Google Calendar, and that sort of interactive stuff.
> > All of it is up to date.
> >
> > So it doesn't surprise me when once in a while it takes a dive, and
> > so far I've been willing to live with it, since I love Firefox and have
> > no intention or desire of switching.
> >
> > But a widely-used application crashing several times a day?
> > The only time I've ever experienced that is running Windows.
> > (Which I almost never do.)
>
> I haven't had a "pure" Firefox instance crash on me at all since the days
> when
> it was Phoenix. By itself, it's remarkably stable on Linux, OS X, and
> Windows.
>
> However, I've had uncountable crashes related to extensions. Things like
> Flash cause almost daily 'hangs' and crashes on my daughter's system.
> Firefox may be stable, but it seems that *anything* you can add on is not!
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