Comment 7 for bug 582640

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Mike Cap (nancy-mike) wrote : Re: [Bug 582640] Re: firefox 3.5 crashes

And the bad Java script, shouldn't that be overwritten when it's
reinstalled??? i reinstalled it once already, it didn't help.

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:16 PM, madbiologist <email address hidden> wrote:

> If I'm understanding you correctly, you need to scroll down to the
> buttons on the Restore screen because you had a _lot_ of tabs open?
> Maybe too many for 512 Mb RAM? When RAM is full your swap partition
> should be used but if that gets full too then you might have a
> (crashing) problem. What does the Resources tab of System Monitor (under
> System -> Administration) show? Or it could be that one of the tabs has
> a page with a bad piece of Javascript, causing Firefox to crash.
>
> To get out of the Restore cycle you describe, as soon as you have
> successfully restored a browsing session, close Firefox before it
> crashes again. You will be asked if you want to save all your open
> tabs, I recommend saying "no", but even saying "yes" should result in
> your next Firefox launch working better than an automatic restore,
> although it might crash again after that depending on number of tabs
> open and/or a bad piece of Javascript on a page in one particular tab.
>
> --
> firefox 3.5 crashes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/582640
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