Problems With Firefox

[petedk]

Recently I have been having a few problems with Firefox.

Firstly, it seems to crash quite often nowadays. I can restart it and go through the same web pages again without problems. It's not really a big problem but is a little annoying.

The main problems comes when searching with Google. Often when I click on the search results I get redirected to another web page that has nothing to do with what I am clicking on. For example today I clicked on a link to a page in the BBC website but up came to a page that was something about Yahoo Malaysia.

I have cleared all cookies, run a virus check but still get the same result.

I use Firefox version 3.5.5

If I change to using Chrome there are no problems.

Any advice? (apart from changing to Chrome).

[Tatsujin]

I also am having major issues with the latest release of FF. Seems to crash/freeze fairly regularly for no apparent reason at any point (usually at the most inconvenient times of course). It won't even let me do a force quit and I have to restart the entire PC when it happens. I've searched the forums/threads but also not found any solutions.

Tats

[trogers]

Is that a Beta version? I am using their most stable release version 3.0.15

[trogers]

Check for critical patches for your version 3.5.6

http://www.pcworld.com/article/184813/mozi...irefox_356.html

[ignis]

version 3.5.6 automatically installed this morning when I click on Firefox...

As for the Freezing of Firefox, found that if you just go somewhere, play a game, open a document etc, then go back to FF it is working again. ...... failing that go to the task manager [CTRL + ALT + Delete then click on Task Manager] and close Firefox, then when you restart all the tabs re-open where you were before the freeze.

[petedk]

Uhm I installed version 3.5.6 this morning and just now it crashed again.

I also did the same google search as yesterday and tried to open the same web page and again was directed to Yahoo Malaysia. Other links seem to be ok.

If I do the same search using Chrome I can open the correct website. Maybe I'll uninstall Firefox and then re-install it. I don't want to use Chrome.

[trogers]

Uhm I installed version 3.5.6 this morning and just now it crashed again.

I also did the same google search as yesterday and tried to open the same web page and again was directed to Yahoo Malaysia. Other links seem to be ok.

If I do the same search using Chrome I can open the correct website. Maybe I'll uninstall Firefox and then re-install it. I don't want to use Chrome.

If I were you, I will deep scan the comp for possible malware as FF do not crash so often in a normal comp.

[Tatsujin]

I'm running 3.5.6 with all updates applied . . . when it freezes for me (and there still doesn't seem to be any one specific thing that causes this as yet) I'm unable to do a force quit and have to restart the entire PC . . . such a pain!

[webfact]

Have you disabled the Skype extension? It can cause a lot of trouble if enabled. It did in my FF

[Gary A]

For those who like Firefox but are having problems with it, you could try Flock. All the Firefox add ons work with Flock and I can't see any speed difference.