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Firefox Crashing?

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Posted 03 January 2008 - 12:42 PM

I'm not sure what's up with my computer but I just keep running into problems.

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium
AntiVirus: AVG Free
Firewall: Comodo Pro

Starting a few days ago, Firefox (2.0.0.11) started to randomly crash. At random times, all of the pages would freeze and I would be load any page in Firefox. When I close Firefox during these connection freezes, the GUI would completely close and it would seem like Firefox had been completely closed; however, if I looked in Task Manager, I could clearly see firefox.exe still running.

Any ideas on what I should do?

Thanks! :huh:
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Posted 03 January 2008 - 03:16 PM

Save your favorites and then uninstall and reinstall. Then pull your favorites back over.

At least that is the first thing I would do. Being that it is a free program, it is easy enough to do the uninstall and reinstall without worrying about activation or keys or other stuff.

Good luck.

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Posted 09 January 2008 - 05:12 PM

I reinstalled Firefox; it still crashed once, but ever since that one crash it's been working normally. :huh:

Thanks for your help!
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Posted 09 January 2008 - 06:46 PM

Go figure! :huh:

I'm happy you got it resolved. :huh:

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