Firefox keeps crashing or hanging up system
Since update 38.0, Firefox periodically crashes or completely hangs my xp sp3 system to where I have to do a cold boot. I have tried everything on your troubleshooting pages: Started Firefox in Safe mode with add-ons disabled - made no difference. Removed all add-ons and added 1 at a time - made no difference. Refreshed Firefox - made no difference. Added a new profile and deleted old one - made no difference. Completely uninstalled Firefox, all folders and registry items and reinstalled 38.0.1 - made no difference. completely uninstalled 38.0.1 and installed 37.0.1 made no difference. I have spent a lot of hours on troubleshooting this problem and now its your turn. I am currently back to 38.0.1 and would like to know how this problem can be corrected. I love Firefox and have no desire to give it up for another browser, but this problem is really making me angry. Every time it crashes, a report is sent to Mozilla and there must be hundreds of these reports by now.
Please help me to solve this problem.
Thanks
William Algie walgie@yahoo.com
Modified by BillyDick
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And another one: bp-e9b3a35c-b9f7-40d0-86ee-8d65e2150526
And yet another one: bp-d3e4f9dd-254b-474b-9468-7aea82150526
That last report is the first report that has a crashing thread.
Firefox 38.0.1 Crash Report [@ shutdownhang | WaitForSingleObjectEx | WaitForSingleObject | PR_Wait | mozilla::ReentrantMonitor::Wait(unsigned int) | nsThread::ProcessNextEvent(bool, bool*) | NS_ProcessNextEvent(nsIThread*, bool) | mozilla::dom::workers::RuntimeService::Cleanup() ]
There is a bug report linked to it. Maybe you can provide some useful information for the devs to be able to pinpoint the cause if you can reliably reproduce the bug (STR: Steps to Reproduce). You would have to create an account on Bugzilla.
- bug 1168149 - crash in shutdownhang | WaitForSingleObjectEx | WaitForSingleObject | PR_Wait | mozilla::ReentrantMonitor::Wait(unsigned int) | nsThread::ProcessNextEvent(bool, bool*) | NS_ProcessNextEvent(nsIThread*, bool) | mozilla::dom::workers::RuntimeService::Cle...
cor-el: I'm not a PC programmer and have no idea why the last report had a "crashing thread". All I know is that Firefox crashes or hangs up the system. In order to reliably reproduce the bug, I would have to be able to reproduce the steps taken just before the crash, which is impossible, due to the fact that I was reading a forum comment at the time. The crashes or hangups, in 90% of the cases, occur when the PC is idle. The other 10% occur when I am typing a reply or reading, never when pages are loading.
As you suggested, I haven't gone into Windows Safe Mode yet, but plan to do that this morning.
cor-el: And some more: bp-85326266-2347-4159-88f7-aeb052150529 bp-3636956c-45f8-4fbb-90fc-2196b2150528 bp-810c7929-92d2-4bda-95cf-866712150528
cor-el: 3 more: bp-2d9fdf28-b84d-474e-9350-64ab22150530 bp-d96beb34-8e3a-492a-a843-19bfa2150529 bp-dcb2bc43-f6b0-4c47-90ba-f27832150529
cor-el: Couple more: Not much time between these two: bp-fa8a71f0-c523-4286-bc52-737f92150530 bp-3ab4426f-ffa2-4121-8b3e-b299f2150530
cor-el: And a few more for your viewing pleasure: bp-16ff1543-6a79-46cd-92eb-fcf492150531 bp-539ab27b-ddbc-44e6-bf62-cb3c92150531 bp-10853e7c-cf3e-46e6-b143-b0b1f2150530