OT: Spread Firefox

Captain Kwok · #1 November 24th, 2004, 10:26 PM

Unfortunately for me, sometimes Firefox crashes and I lose all my bookmarks and custom settings. It just happened again today, which is the third time in 4 months since I've been using Firefox.

I think now I'll have to export and backup my settings to some other folder just in case it happens again. [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Cold.gif[/img]

Fyron · #2 November 24th, 2004, 10:58 PM

Were you doing anything in particular each time it crashed?

Captain Kwok · #3 November 24th, 2004, 11:08 PM

There's no common link between the three crashes that I can recall. This latest one displayed an an error in the firefox.exe module at some hex address. The other times just get the message that the program committed an illegal action and had to close - which happens other times without the loss of settings.

Alneyan · #4 November 25th, 2004, 04:27 AM

Isn't it linked with a computer crash? I know I had the same problem a few months ago; it was solved by not crashing my computer, and, above all, turning off the writing Cache for my hard-drives (which was said to result in data loss in case of a crash).

I cannot swear the solution actually solved the problem, but my settings and bookmarks remained in place since then, so there may be a connection between the two.

CovertJaguar · #5 November 25th, 2004, 05:02 AM

There is an extension that will backup all your bookmarks and settings every time FireFox closes. You might find this helpful.
Bookmark Backup

Atrocities · #6 November 25th, 2004, 05:16 AM

What extensions do most of you have?

DOM Inspector
GMail Notifier
Adblock (With Fyrons PlugIN)
Foxy Tunes
FireFTP
Hotmail Tabs
Tweak Network
Web Mail Composer
Link Visitor
View Cookies
Flash Got

Are these good to have, and what ones do I need that I do not have?

CovertJaguar · #7 November 25th, 2004, 06:10 AM

The two most useful extension I use are:

Tabbrowser Extensions - Has every thing you could every want related to tabs: session saving, editable tab context menus, appearance, too many tabs behavior, auto-reload, undo tab close, rearrange tabs, and many more features.

SpellBound - Will spellcheck any textbox.

Some others I use are:
FoxyTunes
Adblock
Show Image
Bookmark Duplicate Detector
Bookmark Backup
Bookmark LinkChecker
Calculator
DownloadWith
DerBrowserTimer - Adds clock and alarm functions
EZNav
Full Screen Context
Nuke Image
Nuke Anything
Paste Happy
Stop/Reload - Combined Stop and Reload button
Triple Select - Third click selects paragraph
Word Count
Zoomy - Increase/Decrease Text Size

All of these and more can be found at The Extensions Mirror.

Renegade 13 · #8 November 26th, 2004, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Captain Kwok said:
The other times just get the message that the program committed an illegal action and had to close - which happens other times without the loss of settings.

Weird...Firefox has never crashed for me in all the months I've used it....until today. Ironically, it was less than 12 hours after reading your post

You've cursed me!!

Kamog · #9 November 26th, 2004, 02:17 AM

Firefox has NEVER crashed for me... so far.

Gandalf Parker · #10 November 26th, 2004, 11:31 AM

Somehow saying that a program has never crashed on my makes me think the music should change. You know, like it does in a horror movie when the guy tells the girl "we should be safe here". But I will take a chance and chime in that I havent had any crashes. I HAVE been careful about extensions that come from sites other than the main one, and putting in so many that a clash is bound to happen.