I am currently trying (installed) an Ubuntu based Linux Distro. Firefox suddenly started crashing every time that I opened it. The only way I found to stop the crashing was to "remove" Firefox followed by "installing" Firefox. A few times I have had this issue with other Linux Distros that I have tried (installed). I think that one of the other Distros was Fedora based. What could be causing this Firefox crashing problem and how can I prevent this from happening in the future? Thanks in Advance.
I've used Mint 11 for ~1 month and Ubuntu 11.04 for a couple of weeks. I've not yet encountered crashes with Firefox (latest stable, beta, or Aurora). (I had tried Epiphany while on Mint 11 and that appeared a bit buggy to me.)
Have you tried a new FF profile? A corrupted profile is usually the most prominent reason for FF crashes.
But it seems to be happening across installs and distros. It's not clear whether OP is copy/pasting profile files but that's something I would *not* do. Edit: inserted *not*
Even though I use Opera as my primary browser, am yet to experience any crashes with FF on Ubuntu Natty when I use FF on occasions.
Start Firefox in the console with firefox -p and create a new profile. Then you can selectively copy data from the old profile to the new one - see http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Recovering important data from an old profile
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