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Firefox crashes if I try to open more than 2 windows at the same time

Asked by marmaladejackson

Running Firefox 3.0 on an Ubuntu 8.04 AMD 64 platform. Whenever I try to launch more than 2 windows, FF turns grey and eventually crashes. Any suggestions?

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Murali Krishna Marimekala (murali-marimekala) said : 		#1

Firefox 3.0 is very new package still its on the way to get standardized. Need to wait till we get patches to fix all bugs..

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jonoxer (jon-ivt) said : 		#2

I've had this same problem with FF 2 on Ubuntu 6.06 on x86. I switched to using Epiphany as a result and totally forgot about it, then recently I switched back to FF (having long since forgotten the reason I stopped using it) after a full clean install (apart from my home directory) of 8.04 and discovered that the problem remains.

If I get a chance I'll try stracing FF and see if there's anything obviously bad going on.

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marmaladejackson (mcgill-brian) said : 		#3

I actually figured it out. The google toolbar plugin was the culprit. Once I disabled that, no more crashes.

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jonoxer (jon-ivt) said : 		#4

Thanks, that was the problem for me too. Just disabling the Google Toolbar wasn't enough in my case: I had to actually uninstall it.