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Snow Leopard + Firefox 3.5.2
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PhightinPhils26
macrumors 6502a
Hellhammer
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No crashes on me. First time I'm running Firefox as my main browser in OS X, because there's no working adblocker for 64-bit Safari yet.
Do you have many plug-ins?
Do you have many plug-ins?
I only had 2 plugins and I disabled them but no luck. Glad I'm not the only one someone else reported the same issue here: http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1&comments_parentId=432894
I did the upgrade this time around, and I haven't experienced any crashing issues with Firefox 3.5.2 (yet).
A similar thing happened to me as well. After upgrading I have noticed that almost everytime that I click the Help tab Firefox will crash. I reinstalled and that fixed it for a time but it just did it again while I was typing this. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Has anyone else noticed when they just type in a word in the url box, it takes a long time for it to load the first time. For example, if i want to go to www.espn.com, in Leopard I would just type espn and hit enter, however in Snow Leopard it just sits there for half a minute before the site appears. However after the first time of doing that, if i just type in espn, it comes right up. It is doing this for all sites, not just espn, on a clean installation of Snow Leopard.
Ok FireFox 3.5.2 is no longer crashing for me. I deleted the preference file from ~/Library/Preferences and the Firefox and Mozilla directories from ~/Library/Application Support.
Once I knew FireFox was stable I reinstalled my extensions and no problemo. I am using FireFox right now.
Hope this helps
Once I knew FireFox was stable I reinstalled my extensions and no problemo. I am using FireFox right now.
Hope this helps
this was happening to me, i uninstalled firefox and all the support files and reinstalled it...still no luck.
i disabled Hazel and Growl and irefox doesnt crash anymore.
i disabled Hazel and Growl and irefox doesnt crash anymore.
Snow Leopard
I noticed that Firefox and Safari crash a lot more now that I have upgraded to Snow Leopard.
I noticed that Firefox and Safari crash a lot more now that I have upgraded to Snow Leopard.
macintoshtoffy
macrumors 6502a
zaphon
macrumors 6502
When I launch Firefox 3.5.2 on my machines I have upgraded to Snow Leopard (I've tried 3 different machines), it doesn't show up on the foreground. I have to click the window (or tab to it) to make it foreground. This worked fine on 10.5.8, but under 10.6.0 it doesn't come up on top. Even if there are no other windows up, it still doesn't receive focus. And if there is other windows open, it shows up behind them.
erikistired
macrumors 6502
firefox was crapping out on me before SL, and it hasn't changed (with a clean install). too bad, i was hoping.
MikeMayer
macrumors newbie
I actually have found Firefox 3.5.2 to be more stable on Snow Leopard than it was on Leopard.
Stable meaning it starts up quicker, closes quicker, runs generally more smoothly, and during my normal routine of web browsing I've experienced no crashes.
This is not to say that it never worked "perfectly" on Leopard... it just seems to work a bit better than before. Kinda the running theme with the Leopard -> Snow Leopard for me so far.
Stable meaning it starts up quicker, closes quicker, runs generally more smoothly, and during my normal routine of web browsing I've experienced no crashes.
This is not to say that it never worked "perfectly" on Leopard... it just seems to work a bit better than before. Kinda the running theme with the Leopard -> Snow Leopard for me so far.
RandomKamikaze
macrumors 6502a
Firefox 3.5.2 works fine for me.
The only problem that I had was that I did a fresh install and Safari wouldn't let me download it.
I ended up opening Terminal and downloading by FTP'ing into Mozilla's server
The only problem that I had was that I did a fresh install and Safari wouldn't let me download it.
I ended up opening Terminal and downloading by FTP'ing into Mozilla's server
disable growl in system preferences
I discovered elsewhere on this site that growl and firefox have issues running together. I disabled growl and firefox works normally again. Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix the issue so they can both work again.
GS
I discovered elsewhere on this site that growl and firefox have issues running together. I disabled growl and firefox works normally again. Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix the issue so they can both work again.
GS
firefox 3.0 was perfect then they update to 3.5 and it sucks!!! foto fox crashes
firefox crashes more than it did!
CunningWard
macrumors member
Clean install here ( SL 10A432 ) 32 bit kernel on MacBok 2.4 unibody. Its not crashing during work but if I wanna close the browser I can just click on Help and it crash. Its like one click close feature in FireFox now - lol 😀
Same story - Firefox 3.5.2 unstable and crashing if I try to paste, if I go to Help, more or less anything other than browsing leads to a crash
FF sometimes crashes when returning from sleep. Get beachball occasionally. It worked better with Leopard.
I did an upgrade of SL and Firefox has yet to crash.
I get the Help menu problem too. I've submitted bug reports many times. I just trained myself to never touch it. I mean, I never use Help anyway. Not even with the Help Search box.