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AB causes Firefox to crash

I have used Firfox for years. I only joined Answer Bank quite recently. No other site causes this phenomenon but when using AB, I frequently get, "Firefox has encountered a problem" and it closes. Most frustrating. (Of course, the advantage of Firefox is it permits me to restore the pages that were displayed before it closed. But why is it happening?

chrisrob Mon 08/09/08 10:40

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Ethel
Mon 08/09/08
11:24

Trying installing the Firefox add on Adblock Plus

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Ethel
Mon 08/09/08
11:24

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ 1865

chrisrob
Mon 08/09/08
11:34

Question Author

Thanks for the advice, Ethel, I do have ABP already installed and use blockers for any kind of spyware etc too.

Ethel
Mon 08/09/08
11:41

:( I don't find Firefox slow here usually, although there are times when it slows to a crawl but then it is the same on IE.

Have you been overzealous with your adblock filter? Try turning adblock off.

fo3nix
Mon 08/09/08
11:42

Sounds like it could be an issue with an addon.

Try disabling them all, then browsing AB. If it works fine, then you know it's one of them. Enable them one by one until you find the one it fails on.

chrisrob
Mon 08/09/08
11:45

Question Author

Thanks, I will experiment but it is only this site it happens on.

camioneur
Mon 08/09/08
13:10

Well I'm prepared to get shouted at so here goes.

Get yourself a decent browser and throw Fiorefox in the bin where it belongs

netibiza
Tue 09/09/08
12:44

My Firefox crashes repeated on this site, about every 5mins and there's not a lot I can do about it.

chrisrob
Tue 09/09/08
13:02

Question Author

Thanks, netibiza, good to know I'm not alone.
To camioneur, I have IE8, Opera and Chrome as well. I have found Firefox is the best for many reasons.

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