New phenomenon - too many web pages crashing FF 6.0

[j***@nospam.com.au]

It used to be that only a few pages crashed FF, but now mainstream pages are
doing it and I am resorting to Windoze.

Is there a better way?

[Dave Yeo]

Post by j***@nospam.com.au
It used to be that only a few pages crashed FF, but now mainstream pages are
doing it and I am resorting to Windoze.
Is there a better way?

Try safe mode (either firefox.exe -safemode or Help-->Restart With
Add-ons disabled) to see if your problem is an extension or plugin
and/or try a new profile.
Dave

[Marcel Müller]

Post by j***@nospam.com.au
It used to be that only a few pages crashed FF, but now mainstream pages are
doing it and I am resorting to Windoze.
Is there a better way?

FF 10.0.11 is quite stable here. I don't remember when it crashed the
last time.


Marcel

[Dave Yeo]

Post by Marcel Müller

Post by j***@nospam.com.au
It used to be that only a few pages crashed FF, but now mainstream pages are
doing it and I am resorting to Windoze.
Is there a better way?

FF 10.0.11 is quite stable here. I don't remember when it crashed the
last time.

There are bugs. Flash and its interface, the right context menu
recursively redraws itself until the stack overflows under some mixes of
add-ons but the big thing is running out of shared memory, JavaScript in
particular can really eat it. I've found the best thing is to use
no-script and keep the amount of JavaScript running to a minimum.
You might want to update to 10.0.12 as it included newer security
certificates.
Dave

[Marcel Müller]

Post by Dave Yeo

Post by Marcel Müller
FF 10.0.11 is quite stable here. I don't remember when it crashed the
last time.

There are bugs. Flash and its interface,

Flash *is* the bug.

Post by Dave Yeo
the right context menu
recursively redraws itself until the stack overflows under some mixes of
add-ons

Never had this one.

Post by Dave Yeo
but the big thing is running out of shared memory,

AFAIK this comes only from 10.0.12 and above. 10.0.11 works here.

Post by Dave Yeo
JavaScript in
particular can really eat it.

I use NoScript. Maybe this prevents some of the JS garbage from running.
Usually I do not allow any scripts except for them from the page I view.
Performance killers and privacy issues like googleanalytics are in the
black list.

Post by Dave Yeo
I've found the best thing is to use
no-script and keep the amount of JavaScript running to a minimum.

Ack. This does not only apply to OS/2. Many pages kill almost all system
resources on my Linux machine too if I do not use ABE & NoScript.

Flash is also a problem. E.g. it needs almost 100 times as much CPU to

Post by Dave Yeo
You might want to update to 10.0.12 as it included newer security
certificates.

10.0.12 is broken with respect to system resources. It aborts with an
out of memory exception immediately before any window opens.


Marcel