Why does Firefox keep crashing?

Question

It happens whenever I try to open a PDF file, and sometimes for no reason at all. Does anybody know why...and how can I fix it? Should I re-install Firefox maybe?

Keep in mind I'm basically a computer moron LOL

Answer 1

hi

the best answer u will get it is from firefox it self here is the possibility of firefox crashes from the mozila firefox site :



* Possible causes of crashes

* Not using the latest version of Firefox

* Problematic or out of date extensions or themes

* Problematic or out of date plugins

* Malware: viruses or spyware

* nsBrowserOpt.dll

* Your system clock is not correct

* Crash on startup when using Shapeshifter

* Other causes

* Crash during startup with Google Desktop installed

* Crash when downloading

* Crash when using Yahoo!® Mail

* Windows compatibility mode (Windows XP)

* Crashes on Tablet PCs

* Getting information about your crash

* Quality Feedback Agent

* Mozilla Crash Reporter

* Windows crash alert



now if u want to solve your problem or to know ur problem better visit this link



http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Firefox+crashes

Answer 2

It could possibly be something to do with a particular website. Bear in mind that most websites are optimised for Internet Explorer, and they tend to forget about the sensible people who choose to dump the evil IE and use the far superior Firefox.



I've been using Firefox for a year now and had very few problems with it, but I have encountered a few websites that won't work or display correctly. I then open the same site in IE and it works perfectly, so you could try that. If the site works fine in IE, then you'll have your answer - that particular website is only designed to work in IE.



For the random crashes, have you updated Firefox recently? Firefox 3 recently came out, and I think it's now up to 3.2. However, when I was on Firefox 2, I had to perform a manual update to upgrade to version 3. It has been a lot more stable since then. I experienced a lot more crashes in version 2, which was still not a lot in comparison to IE's performance.



To upgrade to the latest version, visit the Mozilla website. It's very simple to download the latest version from there:

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Answer 3

hey, in case you prefer to maintain utilising Firefox: a million. Uninstall utilising upload/eliminate classes 2. Reboot your pc (clears out the registry settings and undesirable lines of FF) 3. Reinstall Firefox from their internet site. do not deploy any upload-ons or plug-ins. a number of them reason crashes by way of conflicting with different apps on your pc) My own fashionable is Opera. i like the tabbed surfing and the "rapid dial" function. Opera additionally saves my log-in ideas for particularly some websites. Opera additionally has a solid geared up-in e mail shopper. On my pc Opera is as rapid and greater sturdy than different browsers. I rather have put in and uninstalled Chrome thrice. It stored crashing. Seamonkey is a reasonably solid browser; additionally Flock is yet another solid browser. It has a solid tie-in with social networking websites (while you're into that). each and every browser I rather have used will crash now and lower back and an uninstall and reinstall normally fixes that. wish this enables, Al

Answer 4

just re installe firefox to get bug updates. they had a problem with adobe 9.0 and java pdf