Comments on: FireFox keeps crashing while working in WordPress

By: srikanth

srikanth — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:15:15 +0000

Thank you for the suggestion of disablingGoogle Gears. It really worked.

cheers

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:53:30 +0000

Those of you having troubles with Firefox crashing when using Google Gears may find the following forum topic over at WP Tavern useful … http://www.wptavern.com/forum/troubleshooting/532-google-gears-crashing-firefox.html

By: Tim Lavelle

Tim Lavelle — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:17:29 +0000

I get the same problem as described directly above me. When I attempt to insert an image, FF crashes immediately. I have submitted the Bug using FF internal crash detection utility, but am unsure of what causes it. I am using FF 3.0.10 and Wordpress 2.7.1

Only FF addons I have is AIRoboForm and Google Gears, I did have FireBug installed last night, and today produced the error. I have since removed FireBug and the crash still happens

As for Wordpress, the only new plugins I have installed since yesterday is the Wordbook and WP-Syntax. I have deactivated these two plugins and the crash still happens.

I really dont want to use IE, but this crash is very, very annoying, and is very new since yesterday. Only new items I have installed are the ones mentioned above…

Also, I am using this on a Acer D150 Netbook.

Hope this info helps.

By: Sage

Sage — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:52:50 +0000

Disable Google Gears and the problem disappears.

By: GimliGlider

GimliGlider — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:01:04 +0000

Whenever I use the WYSIWYG editor while editing a post in WordPress and click on the ‘Insert Image’ icon, Firefox crashes. This is extremely annoying and detrimental to my productivity. Something needs to be done about it ASAP

By: mel

mel — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:24:27 +0000

Yes I too have started getting this crashing problem. i recently upgraded to wordpress 2.7, and I’m using firefox 2. The dashboard/backend is running incredibly slowly, and crashes often especially when trying to insert and image in a post (or do anything actually). It’s so bad i can’t bear to use it. I’m going to try using IE for a whle and see if it still happens. Then I guess i’ll know if it’s wordpress or a my theme or not..

By: Miriam

Miriam — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:29:07 +0000

Mosey,
Interesting to hear about other problems with Firefox. The problems I was experiencing have not gone away, and I find that sometimes when I press Enter while writing a post, Firefox crashes. Bob above says that if we have Firefox problems, we should submit a bug to the links he provides.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:52:13 +0000

I can’t say its a bug but I’ve found a few problems when using Wordpress with Firefox – specifically 2.002 more than 1.5.0.11 as I use both. Firefox doesn’t necssarily crash but it becomes slow all of a sudden (can’t say when really) and sometimes even asks me if I want to download the php file – ie. the one I’m trying to load (eg. the options page)… not sure if this is some other factor though…

By: Bob Clary

Bob Clary — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:04:12 +0000

Miriam,

Thanks! It is very helpful when people not only use Firefox but also become members of the Mozilla community and help us to improve the quality of the software we produce.

I guess most people have gotten used to not being able to affect the quality of the software they use, but in the Mozilla Community everyone can contribute.

When you do file a bug on this or another issue please put my bugzilla email bclary at bclary dot com in the cc field. That way I will be certain to see the bugmail.

Bob

By: Miriam

Miriam — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:41:36 +0000

Bob,
I’ll see if I can reproduce a crash in safemode. However, since I posted this issue, I can’t even recreate the problem in regular mode (or whatever you call it). As for reporting bugs and talkbacks, I’ll try my best.