Am I the only one having FireFox crash....

January 6, 2005 11:05 PM

Am I the only one having FireFox crash while trying to load the y2karl thread below?
posted by fenriq to Bugs at 11:05 PM (21 comments total)

Didn't crash for me.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:07 PM on January 6, 2005 [1 favorite]

Nor I. Perhaps an extension you have installed that is causing it?

Are any other threads at all causing issue, or is it just that one?
posted by Stunt at 11:23 PM on January 6, 2005

No changes to FireFox in the last few days.

Weird, still crashes FireFox after a full reboot but no problems at all in Safari.

Oh well, the thread'll go away shortly anyway.
posted by fenriq at 12:03 AM on January 7, 2005

No crash on Firefox (1.0 on Gentoo Linux). Reading the thread, I kinda wish it had.
posted by dirigibleman at 12:07 AM on January 7, 2005

Didn't read the thread after the first thirty comments, but I just loaded it up in firefox and had no troubles.
posted by The God Complex at 1:01 AM on January 7, 2005

Oh well, the thread'll go away shortly anyway.

What on earth makes you say that?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:05 AM on January 7, 2005

so now we have a thread about a thread about a thread about a thread about a thread? Dammit Fenriq, i'm taking this to metatalk...
posted by kev23f at 2:11 AM on January 7, 2005

hold on, that thread was about something else altogether, i'll shut the hell up now.
posted by kev23f at 2:13 AM on January 7, 2005

Works fine here, as well, in three versions of FireFox, including the old beta.
posted by loquacious at 3:00 AM on January 7, 2005

No crash here, on Firefox 1.0 on Win XP or on Firefox 1.0 on Win2K.
posted by Bugbread at 4:03 AM on January 7, 2005

No, kev23f, you were right, this is indeed a metametametametametametathread. I think fenriq was just ginning up this "problem" to get into the Guiness book or something.
posted by soyjoy at 8:15 AM on January 7, 2005

The levels of awesomeness just never end, do they.
posted by chicobangs at 8:58 AM on January 7, 2005

i see matthole went and deleted the best MeTa EVAR.
posted by quonsar at 9:11 AM on January 7, 2005

Firefox handled it just fine on my obsolete machine. Check your preferences and settings and such, d00d. Like, I've noticed that if I use the big-deal EQ plugin for xmms I gotta delete the config file when I'm through or it'll crash when I next try to use it. Some things just screw things up.

Or maybe sacrificing a chicken to the Unix Ghod will help -- MacOS is BSD-based these days, right?
posted by davy at 10:30 AM on January 7, 2005

MacOS is BSD-based

Or "BaSeD", as I will now pretend anybody ever says.
posted by cortex at 10:55 AM on January 7, 2005

Nope, legitimate question, legitimate issue that's still not resolved. That thread kills FireFox on my Mac at home each time.

I'll probably do a fresh install though since FF has been acting funny lately anyway.

And Stavros, it'll drop off the front page of MeTa and virtually no one will notice or care about it anymore.

quonsar, the thread will live forever in the hearts of those who lived it and loved it. Nevar fuhget the Drama Queen thread to end all threads! I'm working on the CafePress store for some t-shirts and bumper stickers right now.
posted by fenriq at 10:55 AM on January 7, 2005

I'd like a t-shirt that reads "Wh*te Trash", please.
posted by Specklet at 11:13 AM on January 7, 2005

How about "Wh*te Trash Fo-evah 1/5/05"?
posted by fenriq at 11:49 AM on January 7, 2005

It will also live here.
posted by Bugbread at 2:13 PM on January 7, 2005

OK, OK, back on topic:

Fenriq, I often have weird Firefox crash behavior. I don't have the patience I used to have for figuring out the exact cause of these things, but I've found that if I take steps to make sure that Firefox is not trying to "restore the environment" (e.g., it wants to reload all tabs after a crash -- don't let it do that), the problems are usually resolved.

So, I would recommend trying these things:

1. Shut down FF, restart, but don't let it restore tabs. Then try to load the page.
2. If it still crashes, start it again, but don't restore tabs, then shut it down normally. Then start it again, and try to load the page.
3. If it still crashes, start it again (and don't restore tabs), clear the cache, and try to load the page.
4. If it still crashes, start it again (and don't restore tabs), clear the cache, shut it down normally, start it up again, and try to load the page.

Sounds like voodoo, I know, but the point is to clear out environment state information. I specify all those variations out of mere pedantic desire to know the cause, but truth be told, I'd probably lose patience and skip to [4].
posted by lodurr at 8:06 AM on January 8, 2005

Thanks Lodurr, I skipped right to #4 as well. Sometimes its not about knowing why, its just about getting the app to run properly again!
posted by fenriq at 11:04 AM on January 10, 2005