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Why does Mozilla Firefox crash ever f-cking afternoon at 3:00PM?

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Descriptive: Mozilla Firefox "Not responding" every freaking day between 1430L-1500L without fail!! If I have not saved a recent website, it is gone! This is really starting to suck!

Descriptive: Mozilla Firefox "Not responding" every freaking day between 1430L-1500L without fail!! If I have not saved a recent website, it is gone! This is really starting to suck!

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Is it closing, crashing, freezing . . . . . . . Were you actively using the browser at the time?

At 1420; Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options)
key, and then starting Firefox. A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).

Is the problem still there?


In the address bar, type about:crashes<enter>. Note: If any reports do not have BP in front of the numbers/letters, click it to submit them.

The crash report is several pages of data. We need the report numbers to see the whole report.

Using your mouse, mark the most resent 7 - 10 crash reports, and copy them. Now go to the reply box below and paste them in.

aboutcrashesFx29
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Any chance that security software is doing updates at that time everyday? The time setting for updates can usually be changed to a time of day when the computer is expected to be idle; as long as that PC is left running.

Same for any other programs that might do timed data transfer - up or down.

I have had a problem with any web browser running very slow at the same time everyday due to anti-virus database updates at the same time everyday; tweak the time setting in the AV program and no more problem.

But I never had Firefox actually crash, just run slower than hell as all my bandwidth was being used by the AV program. Wait a few minutes and the problem is gone.