Comments on: WTF? Has Firefox been failing for you under OS X?

By: Jim McG

Jim McG — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:24:34 +0000

Firefox dreaded pinwheel when I try the + tab. Runs a loop of “(untitled)” links that will load a hundred plus tabs. Locks everything up if I try to get out of Firefox while it supposedly closes all tabs (which it never does). I have to shut down with the button (can’t force close either–nothing will get out of the closing tabs loop). Reload Firefox?
Switch to Safari (oh no, not that). Anyone?

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Squawking Tech » Blog Archive » Firefox on the decline? — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:43:58 +0000

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By: john

john — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:38:47 +0000

if you’ve got to do all that to browse the web, it’s a crap product.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:23:05 +0000

Flash has been crashing safari a lot for me lately(last couple of weeks). Guess I won’t bother switching to FF!

By: gyffes

gyffes — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:22:50 +0000

Firefox on my g5 (Tiger) iMac has become so unstable, it’s now crashing before the icon on the dock even has a chance to bounce.

On my macbook (10.5.6), it’s bad but not nearly that bad.

I’ve had to reset my browser preferences to *shudder* Safari.

It won’t even stay up long enough to start disabling extensions..

By: John

John — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:16:53 +0000

why? Safari is more stable, quicker, easier to use and less bloated than firefox.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:54:31 +0000

crashes daily and if I see that effin pinwheel again I think I’m going to snap

By: sTRO

sTRO — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:47:29 +0000

I only have cs3 installed, but my FF has been buggy for a while, not letting me save bookmarks. It always references the last-saved bookmark and I can either overwrite it or do nothing.

That’s on my 24″ 2.8GHz iMac running OS X 10.5.6

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:10:46 +0000

It has been crashing on me with flash.

FF better not give me a reason to switch to Chrome when it comes out for Mac…..because I’m VERY interested.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:30:45 +0000

Yep – Firefox has been a nightmare for me on 10.4 for the last two or three builds.

What’s really irritating is that is sometimes crashes when nothing is happening!

It’s got to the point where I’m beginning to think it’s got it in for me…. ‘Firefox three – this time it’s personal’.. that sort of thing.

As others have suggested, I’ve been thinking of returning to Safari…but in reality will probably put up with it until Chrome comes out on the Mac.

By: SwissFreek

SwissFreek — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:23:29 +0000

Good, it’s not just me! I run Minefield, but I’ve been getting Kernel panics for maybe the past week or so, at random times (usually when I’m not at my computer). One day I restarted my computer and didn’t immediately open Minefield, and it didn’t panic while I was at work.

So yeah, Minefield has been making my MacBook Pro very upset lately, but if I quit out of FireFox when I’m not using it, I don’t have any issues. It seems to happen the most when the “New build available, click to restart Shiretoko” window pops up, but that window might have just been popped up and the computer Kernel panicked later…

By: Roland

Roland — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:34:10 +0000

I have the same problem today. Then I found out that it was CoolIris causing all the problem. Just disable it in safe mode.

By: JonStats

JonStats — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:08:22 +0000

We see a lot of crashing on OSX…so unfortunately most of the data is coming from IE users on http://www.searchon.me

By: WTF

WTF — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:16:32 +0000

Not exactly a comment about the article.

But, I felt the article title is not decent.

Yeah, WTF is part of the lingo these days. But when reputable publication is writing an article, I think it should not be.

WTF….who cares…!!!!

By: PaulM

PaulM — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:26:05 +0000

Yes. This is exactly the same thing I’ve been running into. I’ve felt it under “Minefield” as well. Minefield crashing is to be expected, but I also noticed it in the stable branch of FF. This all happened with the updated flash player for me. Before both FF and Minefield were rock solid for me.

By: diem

diem — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:40:47 +0000

Ever since 3.0.5 it’s crashy. I fully swapped over to safari….

By: Devin Coldewey

Devin Coldewey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:16:36 +0000

Don’t say that, Chris… just don’t say it.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:39:13 +0000

Nope.

First I’d create a new user on your system, login and see if Firefox is crashing there. If it is, then it’s probably OS, hardware, or the FF3 app itself. If not, then it’s most likely a problem with your firefox profile. Just rename ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox to “Firefox-BAD”. Relaunch Firefox and import your bookmarks, reinstall add-ons.

If that should fail, I’d recommend a session with AppleJack, and maybe even memtest.
http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

And if that doesn’t clear things up, an archive and install of the OS (saving user accoutns) should do the trick.

Most likely I’d bet it’s your FF profile. I’ve occasionally run into this issue before and had to start over with a fresh FF setup.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:19:59 +0000

Over the last few weeks my firefox (Mac OS X) has been crashing increasingly frequently. Not sure what has changed. It is frustrating enough that I regularly have to resort to Safari in order to see what I want.