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Title: Firefox crashes constantly
Post by: topsy on May 02, 2015, 02:37:21 AM

When I installed Linuxlite 2.4 recently, everything seemed alright. I decided to update the system. After doing so, Firefox

was totally unstable and crashed often. Has anyone else had this problem? How do I install the older Firefox? :(It seems that

Firefox crashes only when I access my Internet Provider (i.e. telus.com). Is there any reason for this? I thank you for the 3

replies. BTW, my system tells me the CLI commands offered do not exist!  topsy.

Title: Re: Firefox crashes constantly
Post by: Jerry on May 02, 2015, 02:45:06 AM

Make sure Firefox is closed first. Then try, Menu, System, Lite Tweaks, Firefox.

Title: Re: Firefox crashes constantly
Post by: shengchieh on May 04, 2015, 02:09:52 PM

Consider wipping  out the old FF configuration (but save your bookmarks and other settings first).  I.e., remove ~/.mozilla/firefox .

Sheng-Chieh

Title: Re: Firefox crashes constantly
Post by: galen on May 05, 2015, 10:08:06 AM

try using bleachbit to clean your firefox cache & crud

sudo swapoff -a
in case it is bad swap disk space

if that does not work
boot from a rescue / live disk and do a filesystem check for bad sectors

eg.
fsck -c -V /dev/sda1
fsck -c -V /dev/sda2

Title: Re: Firefox crashes constantly
Post by: topsy on May 06, 2015, 10:32:59 PM

Firefox only crashes when I access the Internet Provider's home page at : www.mytelus.telus.com

Title: Re: Firefox crashes constantly
Post by: shengchieh on May 07, 2015, 09:57:48 PM

Try once. 

mv ~/.mozilla/firefox  savefirefoxconfig

Then run firefox as it is the first time.  Still crash or not?  If still crash, I can't help you.  If no crash, then slowly build up FF using what is in    savefirefoxconfig/[garbage].default

Sheng-Chieh

Title: Re: Firefox crashes constantly
Post by: galen on May 12, 2015, 10:08:41 AM

http://www.mytelus.telus.com/
validation has many errors
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mytelus.telus.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

most common suspect is likely the flash plugin