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Matthean
04-16-2009, 08:47 AM
I can't recall having Firefox crash on me and getting the submit report window to come up, but it's done it 4 times already this morning, and it's becoming annoying as hell. It's almost like it's crashing quicker and quicker. Anybody else having issues?

Lathum
04-16-2009, 10:06 AM
no

windows did an auto update for me this morning but I have no clue if that is related or not.

sachmo71
04-16-2009, 10:13 AM
did you update any of your add-on recently? try disabling them all and see if it still crashes. if it goes well, try enabling the add-ons one at a time.

Capital
04-16-2009, 12:17 PM
I downloaded Firefox for the first time last night after I could not stand the new IE8 crashing and extremely slow launch times - initial, new windows and new tabs.

While it's only been 1 day, this browser seems quite nice and very fast. Sorry to hear that you are having problems.

SackAttack
04-16-2009, 12:25 PM
All kinds of freezing, but no crashing.

Draft Dodger
04-16-2009, 07:09 PM
I'm getting a lot of page load errors, but only at home, not at work, so I wonder if something else is going on there

Drake
04-16-2009, 08:35 PM
All kinds of freezing, but no crashing.

Yes, yes. I've had all sorts of problems with anything that even resembles Flash or Quicktime freezing up Firefox since 3.0.8. Driving me nuts.

Matthean
04-16-2009, 10:29 PM
I'm currently dusting off Chrome and using that for the time being until I get the motivation to fire up Firefox and see what the heck is going on. Anybody know the file name for your bookmarks are and what folder they are in? I might do a clean reinstall as part of the process.

sterlingice
04-16-2009, 10:41 PM
Weird- haven't seen either and I'm running 3.0.8 on a crappy work build. Tho I do run noscript so a lot of stuff doesn't show up

SI

Noop
04-16-2009, 10:53 PM
I think it has to do with the java stuff because I was having this problem until I updated the java thing. Once I did that everything has worked perfectly for me.

Alan T
04-17-2009, 05:58 AM
I haven't had any problems with firefox crashing but it might be because I've run 3.1 beta for quite some time now (to prevent the cross site cookie stealing that was fixed in 3.1)

Icy
04-17-2009, 06:37 AM
I had all kind of problems when installed firefox in windows 7 beta and imported my settings and addons. Once i disabled all the addons/pluggins it started to work properly, so i could start to enable them one by one to find which ones were causing it.

Matthean
04-17-2009, 10:43 PM
Well, the fun thing is my issues seem to be not related to just Firefox. Steam isn't letting me connect, but it has a thread on it's forums already for this issue so I'm not the only one, and AVG isn't connecting. My avgnsx.exe file is crashing all the time now. I already went through what they recommended and still got nowhere.

Ok, just went and checked AVG's forums and that file seems to be a known issue and so it looks like a reinstall for AVG without some options this time and then that should be good. Hopefully.

Draft Dodger
04-18-2009, 08:13 AM
I think I've nailed down my troubles to the virtumonde trojan (Vundo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vundo))

adaware seems to have taken care of it nicely

Matthean
04-18-2009, 09:39 PM
Yeah, the list is only getting longer of what's messing up. Now Chrome is crashing on me. I downloaded Malwarebyte's remover, but let's just say that's not going 100% smooth either.

DaddyTorgo
04-18-2009, 09:41 PM
yeah - i think i ran into that trojan - or didn't somebody else here on the board (search for it?). it can be quite the bitch, but i know malwarebytes in safe mode took care of it for me i think.

Matthean
04-18-2009, 09:51 PM
How can a boot up in safe more for XP? I get the part where I select the drive to scan, but it locks on me, so it looks like I'll have to go in safe mode.

JW
04-18-2009, 10:27 PM
My daughter's laptop got virtumonde. I tried several things and the Windows Safety Scan is what finally killed it. Think I ran it three times. It is tricky in that it will tell you what you have and that it couldn't get rid of this or that or something like that, but then it lets you go in and manually remove them, but it doesn't clearly explain that you can do that. That is an easy step to miss if you try this scan. But it did kill virtumonde.

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm

Matthean
04-18-2009, 11:47 PM
Did a full scan with Malwarebytes using the admin account and got a clean scan. Trying the OneCare scan under normal conditions. The Malwarebytes scan looked at my user files, but I might still go back and do a scan under me being the user instead.

Matthean
04-19-2009, 07:59 AM
And the scan on my own profile came up clean as well. Probably looking at doing a restore in safe mode later on today.

Matthean
04-19-2009, 11:24 PM
Update. So far the restore has gone decently. This time I saved my bookmarks correctly unlike I had done the first time I had ever done a restore. So not happy back then. I thought I lost them this time as well until I checked my games folder that I copied over. Need to get some of the other needed stuff installed and then I'll do the extras after I wake up. And yes, before the actual restore doing much of anything unless I was in safe mode was pretty much futile. Most frustrating thing I've had to deal with on a computer.

Galaril
01-27-2010, 01:05 PM
I am having a hell of time with Firefox 3.5 and 3.6. I am seeing that my bookmarks are not resolving to the correct web sites and are now resolving to random sites some not even bookmarked sites.