Comments on: Does Firefox Crash On Your VISTA Platform?

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:11:11 +0000

While I’m always frustrated with M$ as well, no one gives them enough credit compared to Apple. Quickly think about an Apple: they have complete control over what hardware is installed in their systems and to some degree the software as well. Think about Windows: many many hardware and software vendors with so many different configurations of both that there’s no way M$ could fully test each and every scenario before launching a new operating system. Not only that, but PC users seem to be tighter with money and try to keep old hardware not designed for the new software/operating systems which also cause issues…

OK. /STOP_RANT

I too have been having many crashes with Firefox in Vista, but only started happening lately. And it only seems to crash when I close my FF window. I have IE8, FF3 and Google Chrome, all with some degree of issues…

Maybe the internet is getting ready to crash too?

By: Larry Brown

Larry Brown — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:41:34 +0000

Don’t get too impatient with FireFox when Vista is likely the problem. I switched to FireFox because IE was constantly crashing in Vista. Unfortunately, FireFox also crashes, to the tune of every 10 minutes or so. The feature to restore your session when FireFox restarts, coupled with a fast restart time, makes the crashes less painful. There’s no reason for me to switch back to IE since that crashes too. I think it’s a bug planted in Vista to sabatoge FireFox (and probably other browsers) that happened to bite IE as well. I mean we all know that M$ is incompetent as well as malicious.

By: scaff

scaff — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:18:47 +0000

Well it’s now April and it’s still happening new lappy new install clean as a whistle FF realy need to get this sorted

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:38:29 +0000

FF crashing all the time in Vista. I’m going back to IE

By: Bombadee

Bombadee — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:48:09 +0000

I had the same problem with FF. Constantly crashing and failing to get info from the web. After trying all of the fixes that were suggested I finally tried a few different Browsers and as a few have noticed Opera is a good alternative. I finally found a goodie called K-Meleon. It is very similar to FF and addons are available for it. The big benefit so far,,,,No more crasahes. If Opera and K-Meleon do not crash it is definitely a FF problem that Mozilla should address and pronto. It seems that a lot of frustrated surfers are changing. Too bad too because FF “WAS” at one time a great browser. But no more. I am still using XP pro so I do not think it matters what OS you are using.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:54:38 +0000

YES, Firefox crashes every single day for me. Usually several times a day. I have Vista now, and its been since then for me. It without fail it also crashes every single night. Several times a day I have to go into my task manager to stop the app manually for it even start it again.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:15:03 +0000

FF crashes on start-up now (didn’t yesterday).Using Vista 64 bit. Wassup with that?

By: wedding photographer in cambridge

wedding photographer in cambridge — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:02:23 +0000

FF is notorious for crashing regardless of the operating system, there must be an bug-fix release almost every week. It’s still preferable to IE though!

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:18:01 +0000

Maybe all version of FF haven’t been crash prone, but apparently since March it is.

By: John

John — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:37:40 +0000

I have had Firefox crash every day on my winxp sp2 system. I really thought it was Windows. But if I shut down Firefox at night, I don’t have to reboot in the morning. Nice product!

After a couple of days of use, I think the latest version 3.04 of Firefox solves the problem.

Everybody wants something cool, something not by Microsoft, so they says how great FF is. But until now, it’s been a buggy mess.