subi10 said

There has been ZERO contact from Mozilla

Crash reports are sent to the Mozilla servers for the techs to look over. They seldom contact the user

Some reports are too old to be of much use.

Product Firefox Release Channel release Version 66.0.1 Build ID 20190322013140 (2019-03-22) Buildhub data OS Windows 10 OS Version 10.0.17763

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:34:11 GMT bp-3d058cea-c9e6-475e-bcf3-181390190324

Sun, 24 Mar 2019 15:25:53 GMT bp-ea5e178b-b5ac-4dcd-9f54-482180190324

Signature: AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown

Crash Reason EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT

VCRUNTIME140.dll = Microsoft Visual C++

IPSEng64.dll = Symantec Intrusion Detection

This is for Sumo's Related Bugs 1524200 REOPENED --- Crash in AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown

1507171 RESOLVED FIXED Crash in AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown

1426941 RESOLVED INCOMPLETE Crash in AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown

1404105 RESOLVED FIXED Crash in AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize,sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown

It looks like the browser is taking too long to do something. And so it (the watchdog) thinks the browser froze.

Does this happen during normal browsing, during shutdown, reading/watching something, when you walk away . . . . .

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).

Just let the browser sit there without doing anything. Is the problem still there?

Those crashes are reports about a problem with closing Firefox. Closing takes to long to finish and a crash is forced, so this is more a hang.

Firefox 66.0.1 Crash Report [@ AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown ]

Are you using "Clear history when Firefox closes" to clear any personal data like the history?

FredMcD said

subi10 said

There has been ZERO contact from Mozilla

Crash reports are sent to the Mozilla servers for the techs to look over. They seldom contact the user

What is the function of the checked box on the Crash Reprot labeled 'Allow Mozilla to contact me about this report' ?

FredMcD said

It looks like the browser is taking too long to do something. And so it (the watchdog) thinks the browser froze. Does this happen during normal browsing, during shutdown, reading/watching something, when you walk away . . . . .

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).

Just let the browser sit there without doing anything. Is the problem still there?

The problem occurs only after I shut down the app and try to open again at a later time, sometimes hours later. Once I hit Close Firefox on the 'Already running but not responding' message the browser seems to function normally. I will try the safe mode again, since it was a couple of months age since I tried that.

I reopened in Safe Mode, then closed the browser. Task Manager showed very high power usage of 27.5% for several minutes, then the background processes icons disappeared. Crash Report reappeared as usual.

cor-el said

Those crashes are reports about a problem with closing Firefox. Closing takes to long to finish and a crash is forced, so this is more a hang. Firefox 66.0.1 Crash Report [@ AsyncShutdownTimeout | Places Clients shutdown | sanitize.js: Sanitize on shutdown ] Are you using "Clear history when Firefox closes" to clear any personal data like the history?

This had no effect.

I am using Norton Security and have Norton Safe Search enabled, no other Add-ons.

subi10 said

What is the function of the checked box

We can't answer that.

subi10 said

I reopened in Safe Mode, then closed the browser.

FredMcD said

Just let the browser sit there without doing anything.

Leave it for a half hour.

Type about:preferences#privacy<enter> in the address bar. The button next to History, select Use Custom Settings.

At the bottom of the page, turn on Clear History When Firefox Closes. At the far right, press the Settings button. Turn on ONLY Cache leaving the others off.

I tried this twice with no effect.

I am only having the 2nd part of this issue. But I have yet to hear of anything that will help this. I get this message each time I try to open the 68.0.2 (64-bit) version, if a window has been recently closed. I sure would like to see a solution to what appears to be a common problem. I don't remember having this problem in the past.

Thank you all,

-TC Harp