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    Firefox Crashing on me

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Jay07, Mar 20, 2008.

  1. Jay07

    Jay07 Notebook Consultant

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    For the past few months firefox has had a problem playing video (especially with youtube). It plays 2 seconds and than stops, and there is no sound. It will not play any other video, but will play audio

    Than, it has been crashing on me recently, just freezing.
    I don't want to uninstall and reinstall because I have so many addons that I don't want to lose, but this is becoming a huge pain.

    I am running 2.0.0.12 on windows XP Media Center Edition, on an HP DV6000T.

    What can I do here?
     
    Jay07, Mar 20, 2008
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  2. blackmamba

    blackmamba Notebook Evangelist

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    I think that may be your only option. OR you can disable your add-ons one by one to determine if one of them is the cause.
     
    blackmamba, Mar 20, 2008
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  3. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Use Febe to backup your entire profile. It is more than likely an extension that is causing the issue.
     
    gengerald, Mar 20, 2008
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  4. Jay07

    Jay07 Notebook Consultant

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    I dl'd febe and performed a backup
    but what now. If its an extension and i backed it up, It will come back when i reinstall right?

    By the way, how do you reinstall all the stuff you backed up using febe?

    I also have some scripts called greasemonkey to download videos when i need to. will that come back with this febe program?
     
    Jay07, Mar 20, 2008
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  5. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Not sure about the scripts. To restore, reinstall Febe extension, restore, ... You should go through and disable all extensions/scripts and try one by one.
     
    gengerald, Mar 20, 2008
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    qhn Notebook User

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    i would personally first try to clean out ur codecs and flash plugins - uninstall them all and re.install the newest versions that u need - stay with one codec if u can

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Mar 20, 2008
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  7. kuncheesh

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    i think theres a problem with flash player. uninstall and reinstall it. also reset firefox by going into the start menu folder of firefox and choose safemode > reset all settings. however be careful to backup your bookmarks before you do this
     
    kuncheesh, Mar 20, 2008
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