Firefox crashes the computer

After installing firefox onto Mac OS X Snow Leopard the computer has crashed a lot of times. For example I just quit firefox then the computer shows the blue screen and i am forced to shut down.

pffft same problem here just keeps on happening. Im running some pretty grunty games and my system is ok. as soon as Im using FF for a while my computer freezes. its only when I use FF. Ive checked computer health. Diagnostics, checked for malware and checked drivers. just cant figure it out. any takers?

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Firefox freezes the computer for about 20-30 seconds (not even Alt+Tab works), the screen blinks black and then it shows the desired page. Does that several times at the beginning, then sort of stabilizes.

Firefox freezes the computer for about 20-30 seconds (not even Alt+Tab works), the screen blinks black and then it shows the desired page. Does that several times at the beginning, then sort of stabilizes.
This happens even if I simply hover the mouse over bookmarks, not even opening a page.
And waiting for this to happen some times or closing and re-opening seems to make it work ok again.
I've already disabled almost all add-ons (I'm using only one for Flash and NoScript right now), reinstalled Firefox (8.0.1), restoring only the bookmarks from an older version.

'''Try the Firefox Safe Mode''' to see how it works there. The Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.''
''(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)''
* You can open the Firefox 4.0+ Safe Mode by holding the '''Shift''' key when you use the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
* Or use the Help menu item and click on the '''Restart with Add-ons Disabled...''' menu item while Firefox is running.
''Don't select anything right now, just use "'Start in Safe Mode"''
''To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before using the Firefox shortcut (without the Shift key) to open it again.''
'''''If it is good in the Firefox Safe Mode''''', your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one.
Please follow the [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] article for that.
''When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.''

If you try to download Mountain Lion and your system won't support it, will it tell you or just crash the computer?

If you try to download Mountain Lion and your system won't support it, will it tell you, or will it try and then crash the computer?

I have a MacBook Pro purchased in 2008. It is a 2.6 GHz Core 2 Duo Processor with 4 GB memory and I am currently using OS 10.7 Lion. But it is one of the "silver keyboard" models. I was told by someone that I would not be able to use Mountain Lion. I have already purchased it for use on my new MacBook Pro, and would like to put it on this one as well, but don't know if I should just try it.

HT4972 Everytime I connect my Ipod to my pc it crashed the computer it doesn't if I connect to a friend laptop can you advise

Everytime I connect my Ipod to my pc it crashed the computer it doesn't if I connect to a friend's laptop can you advise? My operating system is xp but their's is
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You can not prevent it using any setting on the phone, just as you can not do so with any digital camera.

After upgrading to 8.0 everytime I start my computer a window pops up saying Firefox needs the computer to be restarted. I've done it - it still pops up.

I have Win Vista. After I upgraded Firefox to 8.0 a window is popping up and continually saying Firefox needs the computer to restart to finalize installation. I've done the restart when prompted - the next time I start up the computer it does it again, same message.

Just went down this road. Bought two new iPhones last week, one is having this same problem. No help from the store, no help from apple. Re-setting, re-booting, updating, all did nothing. Time to move away from apple. When you have to go through as much as we did to try to solve such a very simple issue, after paying so much money, it's definitely time to try a different product. Apple charges a fortune, yet they provide the same ridiculous service as everyone else. Why get hosed?

Firefox crashes the entire computer

For roughly the last year, Firefox has been crashing my entire computer, causing the system to hang and then shut down unexpectedly.
I have been able to narrow down the source of these crashes specifically to Firefox over the past few months.
I have a Dell XPS 8000 bought January 2010 with an i7 860 2.80Ghz and 16GB RAM, running Windows 7 64-bit. The crashes I receive only occur when Firefox is running and occur anytime between 5 mins of running FF up to 30 mins. I have tested this with nothing running except for FF and still receive crashes.
I use CoreTemp to monitor each core and none of them go above 50 C at the time FF crashes. I can run video playlists on Winamp, sync my iPad with iTunes as it updates several apps, use AutoGK and WinFF simultaneously to convert video, and have Chrome running with 5-8 tabs open and never receive this crash. I've also pushed the system further by having all the above running as well as CS3 Photoshop and Dreamweaver and mimic a server with Xampp and even then, my system will run just fine, albeit with temps in the high 70s.
I've only received these crashes only with Firefox running. To fix this, I've run fresh installations of Firefox twice and then today, since I've been running the same profile info since before 3.5, I backed up my bookmarks, completely uninstalled and then reinstalled FF without any of my addons, and in the middle of recreating my normal tabs and pinned tabs, received the same old crash. As a last resort, I let go of all my bookmarks and began adding them all individually, and once again, received the same crash; this last test was when I had nothing but FF running and temps below 50 C.
I am terribly frustrated by this issue because I am writing this from an HP laptop running FF with a profile that's been used since 3.5 and I can run FF and Minecraft on this laptop with no problems at all. I also have the same FF profile ported over to my Macbook Air and no issues there either.
I'm at a loss as to what could be causing this problem or how I can go about fixing it and any help would be greatly appreciated.

pffft same problem here just keeps on happening. Im running some pretty grunty games and my system is ok. as soon as Im using FF for a while my computer freezes. its only when I use FF. Ive checked computer health. Diagnostics, checked for malware and checked drivers. just cant figure it out. any takers?

Firefox crashes MY COMPUTER!!! When I open it, my computer BLUE SCREENS then turns off!!!

Within the past few months, I have not been able to use Firefox at all. It started crashing my whole computer, making the whole thing go blue screen before shutting down, and I have uninstalled and reinstalled it TWICE, the second time sacrificing ALL OF MY BOOKMARKS, and even after that, it STILL CRASHED MY COMPUTER! My college professors prefer that I use this browser to do my WebCT assignments (and *tests*) and I have been unable to do so.

*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox#Mac
<pre><nowiki>Mac:
Profile folders are in one of these locations:
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<profile folder>
~/Library/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/<profile folder>
The tilde character (~) refers to the current user's Home folder, so ~/Library is the /Macintosh HD/Users/<username>/Library folder. </nowiki></pre>

After Firefox updated, the computer locked up when I turned on the HP Scanjet G4050. Why?

Firefox seemed to be working fine, but when I turned on the scanner, the screen locked. I couldn't do a "force quit". The only solution was unplugging. I tried this twice after restarting and the same thing happened. Each time I turned off the scanner before restarting. Once, I left the scanner on after unplugging the computer. Then, when Firefox was launched it locked up.

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Firefox crashing my computer?

Hello,
I'm using Firefox 2 with my G5. I don't know but Firefox crashes very often here. Strange since it's the only application I have problems with (apart from the MS Office).
But now not only Firefox crashed, no, the whole system fell down. I got a message moving up from the bottom telling me to hold the reset button for several seconds to reboot. Reminded me the good old windows blue screen times
Here is the report I sended Apple. Can anyone do something with this report? Is it really Firefox causing these problems or is something fishy with the system?
Tue Sep 16 17:47:33 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x000AB754): enable_preemption: preemption_level -1
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 1:
Backtrace:
0x0009B498 0x0009BE3C 0x00029DD8 0x000AB754 0x0003FA04 0x0003F9E4 0x000B05D4
Proceeding back via exception chain:
Exception state (sv=0x5834c000)
PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
9E17
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.4.0: Mon Jun 9 19:36:17 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.20~1/RELEASE_PPC
System model name: PowerMac11,2
8CIQuV
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Hello,
'''Try Firefox Safe Mode''' to see if the problem goes away. Safe Mode is a troubleshooting mode, which disables most add-ons.
''(If you're not using it, switch to the Default theme.)''
* On Windows you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the '''Shift''' key when you open the Firefox desktop or Start menu shortcut.
* On Mac you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by holding the '''option''' key while starting Firefox.
* On Linux you can open Firefox 4.0+ in Safe Mode by quitting Firefox and then going to your Terminal and running: firefox -safe-mode (you may need to specify the Firefox installation path e.g. /usr/lib/firefox)
* Or open the Help menu and click on the '''Restart with Add-ons Disabled...''' menu item while Firefox is running.
[[Image:FirefoxSafeMode|width=520]]
''Once you get the pop-up, just select "'Start in Safe Mode"''
[[Image:Safe Mode Fx 15 - Win]]
'''''If the issue is not present in Firefox Safe Mode''''', your problem is probably caused by an extension, and you need to figure out which one. Please follow the [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] article for that.
''To exit the Firefox Safe Mode, just close Firefox and wait a few seconds before opening Firefox for normal use again.''
''When you figure out what's causing your issues, please let us know. It might help other users who have the same problem.''
Thank you.

Firefox (cause the computer) run very slow and display message about Javascript...

I have installed Firefox (latest vesion) in Windows XP Computer and It sometime run slow (and slow the computer at that time) so that I have to kill firefox job in taskmanager to run it again. Normally, when computer slow, the firefox show a message like "javascript..."
Please tell me how to fix this problem. Thanks!
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Firefox crashes the second I purchase on Ebay. When Firefox reopens, it brings me to the purchase page again making me think the transaction did not go through. Later I find out the transaction did go through.

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However, you do not tell me how install these. I also woke up early so I could access your Chat service from 6:00 - 7:00 am Pacific time but it is not available. I have also not been able to find a contact phone number to get my problem resolved. I regularly purchase on ebay and have had this problem for all 3 purchases I made in the last week. I need to purchase several other items in the next few weeks before I leave the country for 2 months. I need to get this problem resolved immediately. If someone can call me, my phone number is 720-***-****.
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Encore CS6 crashes the computer

I have a DVD project authored including a motion menu with motion buttons, chapter points and a play list. The main movie is a Premiere Pro CS6 timeline with chapter points and poster frames. There is also a first play video. The PPRO sequence was imported using Adobe Bridge. When I preview it in Encore it plays fine. Everything works, including the motion buttons, first play and play list. The problem arrises when I try to output the project to DVD. The motion menu renders and the transcoding starts. Then the computer crashes HARD. The reset button won't even work. It is necessary to turn off the power to get it started again. I have tried this several times and it crashes at the same point.
My computer is plenty strong enough with an Intel 4790 Z89 chip and Asus Z89 mother board. The C drive is a solid state drive. The data drives are 2 TB WD drives, not in RAID. 16 Gigs of memory too. I have had absolutely no problems with this setup running other Adobe CS6 applications. I have the Creative Suite bundle.
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406006.html
Troubleshoot system errors and freezes | Adobe software on Windows
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/822/cpsid_82252.html
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