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PeterWolfe2012
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New Change at YouTube?

I am still using Firefox is to download YouTube videos to watch later at home. The "crash every hour, crash again for the next three restarts and then 'Oops, we lost what you were doing'" BS that has plagued the once-GREAT browser ever since the developers started taking money from Google has made it utterly unusable for anything else.

In the last few minutes I have encountered a new problem. After the latest automated crash, trying to download YouTube videos now results in opening the video in a new tab. After trying several add-ins, I settled on Download YouTube Videos as MP4 1.7.18 as my "go to" option.

Sorry, I've got to run; but I've run out of time. Does anyone have any ideas?


Thanks

New Change at YouTube? I am still using Firefox is to download YouTube videos to watch later at home. The "crash every hour, crash again for the next three restarts and then 'Oops, we lost what you were doing'" BS that has plagued the once-GREAT browser ever since the developers started taking money from Google has made it utterly unusable for anything else. In the last few minutes I have encountered a new problem. After the latest automated crash, trying to download YouTube videos now results in opening the video in a new tab. After trying several add-ins, I settled on Download YouTube Videos as MP4 1.7.18 as my "go to" option. Sorry, I've got to run; but I've run out of time. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks

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Moses
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You have a TON of add-ons installed so it's most likely a conflicting add-on In order to assist you better, please follow the steps below to provide us crash IDs to help us learn more about your crash.

  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A Submitted Crash Reports list will appear, similar to the one shown below.
  2. Copy the 5 most recent Report IDs that start with bp- and paste them into your response here.

SubmittedCrashReports-Win7

Thank you for your help!

More information and further troubleshooting steps can be found in the Troubleshoot Firefox crashes (closing or quitting unexpectedly) article.