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Thanks to Anthony Eden for the comment (below) to remove the dot in front. A simpler alternative is:
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September 2nd, 2008 at 11:45 am
Ummm… why is it do you think that you have this problem? I have used and deployed firefox to thousands of machines, for many more years than I care to count - lets just say I started doing it when it was called “Phoenix”. I have had crashing issues with earlier versions (pre 1.5), but it was almost unanimously due to a plugin - not FF itself. Recent crashes have been very rare, and in every single instance it was a badly-written third party plugin to blame.
Try starting FF in “safe mode” and see if that fixes your crashes. If so, turn off all your plugins and start turning them on one by one. Find the one that crashes the app. Remove it. Be happy. If you can’t remove it, live with it and file a bug report against the plugin. And beware of Flash - badly written Flash has been the culprit more often than any other crash I have experienced.
Sorry if I seem a bit crass, but it is unbelievable to me that someone is still experiencing massive, repeatable crashes and hangs with FF after 1.5 - on any platform.