Had to get rid of Firefox

BSOD's

Published on October 14, 2013 By LightStar In Personal Computing

Well, after many years of using Firefox, I had to get rid of it and I guess I'll use IE until I find something better. It seems Firefox has been crashing systems with a BSOD since at least version 20. People have complained in the forums, but no one at Mozilla seems to care evidently. My system has crashed 10 times now while using Firefox, and if the creators apparently aren't going to fix it, I am not going to use it.

Anyone else getting BSOD's when using Firefox (v20-v24) on Windows 7?

Comments (Page 4)

LightStar

on Oct 18, 2013

I'll second frankell said Dave, it does import IE favorites just fine.

Veritech100

on Nov 03, 2013

Never had a bsod with firefox and it's my default browser now version 25 so as everyone's said run Memtest as i had bad ram and that was the thing that was bsod'ing my PC replaced brand new Corsair vengeance sticks with G-skill ram and all's been fine since!

LightStar

on Nov 03, 2013

It turned out to be the video drivers, I rolled them back for my nVidia cards and all has been well since. Going to stick with IceDragon though as there are a few other things I don't like in Firefox that IceDragon does not do.

Uvah

on Nov 05, 2013

Has anyone experienced this problem where the up down arrows, instead of scrolling, minimize and maximize a page? It doesn't happen with just Firefox, have this problem with Chrome too. I Googled it and the solution, among others, was to open the run dialogue and type in gpedit.msc...go to...User Configuration, Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Explorer. Find Turn off Windows + X hotkeys. Select edit from the action menu and Enable the feature. This is on Win8. How this happened I have no clue.

Jafo

on Nov 05, 2013

Uvah

reply 49

This is on Win8. How this happened I have no clue.

Er....it's Win 8 .....

ElanaAhova

on Nov 06, 2013

I'm with Doc. I have used pale moon for several years. Never get a crash with it. i like its scaled down and optimized running - and fewer exploitable 'holes' for malware to exploit. Just add web of truth (trust?) and its good to go.

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