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Firefox crashes after starting.

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krazzy
krazzy Original post #1
Feb 21, 2009 at 11:57 AM
I am using WIndows XP Professional with SP3. Whenever I try starting Firefox, it crashes and shows the following error:

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Even uninstalling and reinstalling it hasn't helped. What could be wrong and more importantly how to fix this? :confused:
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gopi_vbboy #2
Feb 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Tell more clearly what is ur version n what process r u running?
what r ur recent changes?
Akshay
Akshay #3
Feb 21, 2009 at 12:18 PM
Try starting FF in safe mode or try creating a new user profile.
ravi_9793
ravi_9793 #4
Feb 21, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Try uninstalling and installing latest version of FF.
damngoodman999
damngoodman999 #5
Feb 21, 2009 at 1:21 PM
No need of uninstalling ,, its normal in the firefox , 98% the crashes are going on
comp@ddict
comp@ddict #6
Feb 21, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Well, tell us what you did that may have caused this, I mean surely FF3 was working b'fore this crash. What changes or something else did you do in the past week?
mittyr
mittyr #7
Feb 21, 2009 at 2:11 PM
@krazzy

I too wud suggest a "clean" install. FF never crashed on me after FF3 beta version (using FF 3.0.5)
zyberboy
zyberboy #8
Feb 21, 2009 at 2:54 PM
List the programs running in background....
Ecstasy
Ecstasy #9
Feb 21, 2009 at 4:26 PM
Best part of linux- FF doesn't crash.

Probably a reinstall would be a good idea.
krazzy
krazzy #10
Feb 21, 2009 at 5:25 PM
I am running the latest version of Firefox, v3.0.6. And I already mentioned in my first port that I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. Even staring it in Safe mode does not help.

As for the changes I made to the system, well I recently formatted one of my partitions and also removed some fonts that I don't use. But the partition that I formatted was not the one on which I had installed Firefox on and I don't see how removing fonts could be a problem, as Opera seems to be working fine as with every other application.
red_devil
red_devil #11
Feb 21, 2009 at 5:51 PM
this happened to me as well when I was running FF3 on XP..

FF3 ran real good and all of a sudden, a few times it crashed for nothing ...i didn't do much after the crash.. just hit "restart firefox" and things got back to normal again...


why this happened ? I have no clue !!

<but this hasn't been happening ever since I switched over to VISTA...again dont know why !!>
damngoodman999
damngoodman999 #12
Feb 21, 2009 at 7:56 PM
In XP3 its truly normal everyone said abt this


Do u any problem with ??