Firefox started crashing a lot in recent days

[Andrew]

This started a few weeks ago for no obvious reason. Eventually I upgraded to 107.0.1 (Win 10/32 bit) and it still happens.

Is anyone else using firefox with windows and having 'issues' ?.

Andrew

[Chris Hogg]

Using FF 108.0.1 which is the latest version I believe. Not had any problems either now or in the recent past. What bugs me about FF is the avalanche of upgrades that have been coming through in recent months. Barely finished installing one and another comes along!

[Andy Burns]

Thankfully no, running FF 108.0.1 64bit on Win11 22H2

[Andy Burns]

They take seconds to install, and they keep you safe, so why hate them?

[Paul]

perfmon /rel

See what the failure reports say, under each "dot".

*******

Windows has a memory tester available. "Windows Memory Diagnostic" You may have to use the application launcher and type that into the search.

The scary part is, it actually works. I wasn't expecting miracles when I tried it, but it actually found something. Using memtest, I was not able to determine which stick was bad. In memtest, only the four-stick case was throwing errors. But "Windows Memory Diagnostic" was the first thing to report an error, and it took more work to finally determine all four sticks would get turfed. (If it won't throw an error when each one of the four sticks are installed individually, there's not much you can do.)

This was on a board, where it looked like the Intel Northbridge (X48) was bugged, and it needed a slight bit more Vnb to work properly. And it's not like I was overclocking or anything, either. Fairly modest setup and settings.

Paul

[charles]

I have FF on Win10. No problems.

[wasbit]

I've had problems for a couple of weeks with Pale Moon stalling. May be related as Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox/Mozilla. Seems to have cleared now. There was an update recently - version 31.4.2 (64bit)

[R D S]

I have had semi regular bouts of this with Ubuntu, often thought of giving up on it. It always sorts itself eventually.

[Brian Gaff]

Is it always at a certain point? I had this with an allied bit of software, Waterfox classic.08, downgrading to 07 again fixed it. If you feel the problem may well be due to an update, you can disable auto updating and over install the previous version. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

No they do not keep you save if they muck up the reliability and I've used some really old Firefox versions with the only issue that the web site stops me accessing it with an old browser. I feel paranoia at work. Brian

[alan_m]

Because for every fix something breaks. I now have a few sites which recently firefox no longer likes but Edge (spit) has no problems with!

[Andrew]

That was shown as the current version when I upgraded but it only installed up to 107.0.1

[Tim Streater]

No, I'm not running Firefox and I'm not running what I'm not running on Windows, and so I am having no 'issues'.

[charles]

How helpful :-(

[Joe]

Quite a few web 'designers' are apparently unaware that there are such things as standards. If the site and the browser both comply with them, there are few problems. If web pages are tested with only one browser, then problems with others must be expected.

Web designers now are mostly working beyond their level of competence, and expecting their favourite web design program to fill in the gap.

[Tim Lamb]

No crashes. Lots of revisions recently. Current version 108.0.1 (32 bit) W7

I could do without the constant (accept/reject cookies) messaging but I guess that is down to my settings.

We discussed the failure to print some attachments elsewhere.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Indeed. I spent ages writing a program to run with Firefox. It spectacularly fails on Edge. The problem is the stuff you need to do really interactive javaScript or advanced CSS is simply not standardised or if it is, it breaks in different ways

Never a truer word spoken. They are not programmers, they are 'creatives' (=ArtStudents™)

[Andy Burns]

That add-on has recently been purchased by Avast, but so far I've not noticed any changes

[alan_m]

But if a page/site has been working for over a year in Firefox and other browsers and stops working at exactly at the same time (within a few minutes) as a Firefox upgrade who is not following standards?

After many years of using Firefox I'm now seriously considering dropping it - too many untested upgrades!

[Tim Streater]

Stick to pure HTML5 and you'll be OK. And throw the jquery s**te in the bin.