How I Fixed Firefox 3’s Annoying Crashing Problem on Windows

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How I Fixed Firefox 3’s Annoying Crashing Problem on Windows

July 31, 2008 on 8:43 am | In Personal, Techspeak |

It took a while, but I finally decided to read the error reports. When I did so, I found that nearly every one of Firefox’s crashes that I experienced was related to a specific extension. I dug around in the registry and the extensions folder, and found that it was none other than the Java plugin.

Living on the edge, I decided to just remove it. I uninstalled Java, then deleted references to the plugin in the registry and filesystem. Voila. Everything works and Firefox hasn’t crashed on me in over a week.

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