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Firefox for android makes os crash on exit

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moondog
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Since some time I have been using Firefox for Android on my HTC smartphone. I like the browser and it works fine but almost half of the time when I exit the browser HTC sense (the android interface of HTC) crashes. This takes about a minute to restart. It doesnt make the whole phone crash and restart but its quite irritating. I have this with no other apps and it seems to have more often when I visited many sites. To prevent crashing I close all open tabs first, but this doesnt seem to help. Is my android version maybe too old? I think I have version 2.2.4.

Thanks for your help.

Since some time I have been using Firefox for Android on my HTC smartphone. I like the browser and it works fine but almost half of the time when I exit the browser HTC sense (the android interface of HTC) crashes. This takes about a minute to restart. It doesnt make the whole phone crash and restart but its quite irritating. I have this with no other apps and it seems to have more often when I visited many sites. To prevent crashing I close all open tabs first, but this doesnt seem to help. Is my android version maybe too old? I think I have version 2.2.4. Thanks for your help.

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Kevin
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Firefox does not 'crash' it. Android will kill background applications when Android or foreground applications need more system resources. This includes the Android launcher homescreen. There is nothing Firefox can do to alter this behavior of Android..

moondog
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Hi Kbrosnan,

Thanks for your reply. But wouldn't Android in that case simply close Firefox? That seems like an app using a lot of resources. Instead it closes the whole HTC OS (or interface). Firefox is the only app that does this.

I just updated Firefox to the latest version, although if it's not FF that causes the problem this won't change anything.

By the way the Android version I use is 2.3.5, I put that wrong in my previous post.