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Normally I'd consider myself fairly tech savvy so this doesn't happen to me a lot but my firefox is almost unusable on my mac. I have to keep it as I use a lot of plugins but it crashes numerous times a day, locking up loads.

I'm updated to the latest version; these issues just began happening a couple of weeks or so ago before this point. Completely random, no updates. My housemates macbook is doing pretty much the same thing.

Anybody else experiencing this?
 
nope.

Intel macbook running Snow leopard and firefox 3.5.4 with adblockplus here with no problems.

What other software are you running? lots of plug ins? any chance of a virus/adware?

Is it the same sites?
 
edbarton said:
Normally I'd consider myself fairly tech savvy so this doesn't happen to me a lot but my firefox is almost unusable on my mac. I have to keep it as I use a lot of plugins but it crashes numerous times a day, locking up loads.

Anybody else experiencing this?
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Nope - no issues with using it on both my iMac and my macbook with both at the most recent version. Indeed I much prefer it to Safari. I also have quite a few plug ins - any that you suspect causing the problem?

Chris
 
Plug-ins I use are DownloadHelper, WebDeveloper, XMarks and FireFTP but my housemate isn't using any of these and his is locking up.

I always used to have huge issues with flash which crops up as a lot as I'm quite active on vimeo and have a lot of flash videos open at the same time. I've never had issues like this with safari and flash though and I haven't on Windows.

Part of the problem is that I'm a bit of a tab fiend really and have 20-30 open at once but as I said, this is just how I work really and it never posed a problem a few months ago or when I had a windows pc.
 
Out of interest, why are you using Firefox rather than Safari?

I've used both with no problems. I don't have issues with Firefox on my Powerbook but I use Safari on the PowerPC.
 
MPB running 10.5.8. Firefox browser of choice, with no problems.

I wonder if its a resource problem, possibly with memory. The problem is Firefox can update
itself automatically so you may be seeing a problem with a newer version that you didn't have with a previous one.
 
I find Safari far superior than firefox on my Mac, you cant compare the start up times. Safari is so much quicker. I find firefox not responding alot of the time
 
Have you tried disabling the plug ins one by one?

FF is running fine here, but I've not got any plugins.
 
It may just be one plug-in causing the problem, a process of elimination so to speak.
 
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It may just be one plug-in causing the problem, a process of elimination so to speak.
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I would agree although I new that in the latest versions of MAC OS X the plugins would have crashed without letting the browser crash.

No idea but worth disabling plugins one by one...
 
My firefox had been freezing, going slow and would crash if you tried to view your history. Saved all my bookmarks and did a complete uninstall, reinstall and seems fine now.
 
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