Thanks for the detailed followup. It may help others. jjb On May 21, 5:24 pm, kwerboom <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 21, 10:27 am, John J Barton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On May 21, 1:24 am, kwerboom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I installed Firefox 5 Beta on my machine and found that Firebug 1.7.1 > > > was listed as incompatible. I searched and found that Firebug 1.8a2 > > > was for Firefox 5 Beta. When I installed Firebug 1.8a2, my copy of > > > Firefox 5 Beta crashed and I had to access "safe mode" from the run > > > box in Windows 7 to go in and uninstall Firebug 1.8a2 to get Firefox 5 > > > Beta working again. Would you please make sure that Firebug 1.8a3 > > > works better so that I can install that? > > > Firebug is not capable of crashing Firefox through any operation. If > > Firefox crashes, it's a Firefox bug. Please report it > > tohttp://bugzilla.mozilla.org. > > > Since our automated tests pass for FF5 + 1.8a2, I suggest you try > > installing Firebug 1.8a2 into a new Firefox profile. I bet you will > > find that it does not crash. > > > jjb > > 1. Retried with a clean profile and Firebug 1.8a2: worked. > 2. Retried with old profile with only 'development window' open and > Firebug 1.8a2: worked. > 3. Retired with old profile with both 'development window' and 'web > surfing window' open and Firebug 1.8a2: crashed. > 4. Went into safe mode and looked through websites in 'web surfing > window'. Closed out 482 tabs that I read but forgot to close. I've > been using 'browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs' set to '0' to > only load the active tab in each window. > 5. Retired with old profile with both 'development window' and cleaned > up 'web surfing window' (with only 88 current tabs I keep open for > Folding@Home status/Steam/GOG.com/New Egg/PHP.net/Reddit/Beta News/ > etc.) open and Firebug 1.8a2: worked. > > I don't know why Firefox 4 w/ Firebug 1.7.1 (along with the Firefox 4 > Betas w/ Firebug 1.7betas) and Firefox 5 Beta w/o Firebug 1.8a2 didn't > crash opening but not loading a window with 570 tabs and why Firefox 5 > Beta w/ Firebug 1.8a2 did crash under those same conditions. I realize > that I'm an edge case as far as tab usage and hoarding goes. I did > submit a bug per your recommendation and here is the number: <a > href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658830";>Bug 658830 > </a>. > > All said it wasn't a bad thing that it happened as I did finally close > out a bunch of old tabs. Thank you for recommending that I try a clean > profile. You were right that it was a problem on my end. > > --kwerboom
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