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And it is why I was using Mozilla 1.7 for past couple of months.
FireFox 0.9 crashes on complicated pages which has flash animations and too many pictures. It happens on two of my computers. (Yes, I double checked the setup. It happens with and without plug-ins installed).
Goodbye FireFox for now. I love Mozilla 1.7.2.
Aren’t you experiencing what I experienced?
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just right, I strongly recommend everyone that no to rely on Firefox in this stage. Although it has many features but it lacks stability. It hasn’t attained puberty. I lost my favorites 2 times (I had quite fresh backups). I exprienced many crashes when I had opened many Tabs and couldn’t remember/track pages opened.
Yes, I would agree with you. It seems to me that the Flash Plug-in itself is quite unstale. I haven’t experience the slowness with pages that have many images, by the way. I use Firefox everyday, and I have to say I would still use it, even if it is somewhat unstable. There’s always Mozilla, of course. Just some thoughts.
Firefox is fine (and plenty stable) on my WinPC at work but at home on my Mac is another story. OS X 10.3.5 – Firefox starts up (bouncing icon in dock) quites, starts up (bouncing icon) quits – it never gets to actually load and will cycle like this until you kills the process (which is hard unless you know a little awk to go with the kill command) or reboot. Firefox was great until 0.9 – after .9 came out it would not longer load on my Mac
(And I can’t seem to find any info as to why) – Yes, I did trash my profile and all the other stuff that should be done.
For the flash problems I used “flashblock” plugin. You can play the flash movies you want (by clicking on their place-holder).
But my experience on WinXP is far away from my linux box in the offoce. The linux version seems to work very fine, but I _have_ to use IE sometimes at home. FireFox crashes, specially on embedded WMA/media objects.
Interesting… FF hasn’t crashed on W2k or WinXP even once since 0.6. I have Flash installed and use it as my main browser, everyday, all day.
I’ve lost my open tabs a couple of times due to FF getting launched from another application (that should be fixed!), but, as I said, no crashes.
Babak, please state the OS(ses) you’r running Firefox on.
In my situation Firefox 0.9.x is okay both on WinXP and Linux with Flash enabled.
I guess you are on FreeBSD 5.x?
Firefox crashed once on my WinXP and it was when I had lots of tabs open and most of them in loading state.
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firefox 0.9 (binary) crashed using Linux, with or without flash. Demm i hate flash pages!
I haven’t had problems with 0.9.3 running on FreeBSD 5.2.1, but the new 1.0PR (on Linux) gave me so much problems (bookmarks not saving, bookmarks dissapearing + other funny stuff) that I saw it best to roll back to 0.8.
hey dude, it’s just v0.9.x, wait till it becomes something more mature. i haven’t tried mozilla yet but what i know is firefox is just as fast as opera or even better.
I use firefox .10 and it’s very unstable over the course of a week of work. I use windws 2k, XP, OSX 10.2 and 10.3, Mandrake 9.1 and 10.0 and it crashes several times a week. Ironically it crashes less on Windows. I know this is just my experience, but it has been brutal. if only it was as stable as mozilla which crashes rarely or netscape 7.1 which has never, ever crashed on my in days of continuous use.
My Firefox 1.0 crashed this morning while closing from “tabs” mode. Windows XP rebooted and all Favorites were lost.
I also have problems closing Acrobat Reader from Firefox – computer locks up.