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firefox silently crashed!

Asked by Wladston Viana

I was doing an extensive research, and all of sudden, firefox crashed, taking with it all the open tabs of usefull information I took so long time to gather ....

It simply closed silenty - there wasn't even an screenshot of an error message I could take screenshot of...

I'm starting to get angry with that fox .... :( This is starting to look like the times when windows let you full of anger when it destroyed your work ... but even worst in this case now, I don't get even an error message!!!!

Anyone knows what can I do to prevent firefox from crashing randomly, taking all my time of research with it ?

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#1

You can install Firefox 2.0rc1. It can recovery from crashes keeping track of your work (opened tabs, text and so on).

If you still have problems, try to obtain a backtrace of the crash following the instruction listed here:https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingFirefox.

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Wladston Viana (wladston) said : 		#2

Ok, thanks Luca!

I'll wait for the 2.0 version to be released before I install it.

It did not look like a crash - suddenly the firefox windows dissapeated, as fast as a blink of the eye. I really have no idea of what caused the trash, since I was loading various pages when it happened.

Thanks very much! :)

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Eamonn Sullivan (eamonn-sullivan) said : 		#3

A simpler way to get a clue about the error is to start firefox in a terminal window. Open the same tabs (they might be in your history -- Ctrl-H) and see if you can repeat the crash. The error message might be something as unhelpful as "segmentation fault" or it might be more informative. It's worth trying before installing a new (and unpackaged) version of firefox or recompiling so you can do a backtrace.

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#4

It is quite stable at the moment (I use it at work since 2.0beta). Anyway, Edgy will ship it, so it is just a matter of time :)

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Wladston Viana (wladston) said : 		#5

Okay! It's not the matter of it being instable or not - it's because the instalation of new programs on Ubuntu is not quite clear for me - the only way I know is the old visit-the-site-download-and-double-click-the-installer :)

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Óscar Rodríguez Ríos (ingorr01) said : 		#6

I've a similar problem with some sites. I ran Firefox from console (to see the log) and I can find that come sites that use Flash 9 makes de flashplugin (7 is the lastest version for linux) crash and then crashes Firefox too.

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Wladston Viana (wladston) said : 		#7

Yes! I've even reported such bug to firefox team. Firefox seems to be getting more fragile ....

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#8

I don't think it's a Firefox bug but a Flash plugin matter. If you run in a site designed for Flash 9 while you still have Flash 7 plugin, in order to display it without worries you have to sit down waiting for an update from Adobe or trying its open-source replacement.