Re: Firefox endless crashing ... thx for your suggestions ...

2016-05-18 Thread Snyder, Alexander
Can't hurt to take a look ... -- Thanks, --:: Alexander J. Snyder ::-- --:: ThisGuyShouldWorkFor.Us ::-- --:: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. --Steve Wozniak" ::-- -- On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:34 PM, wrote: > Thanks Alex and Brien: > > I w

Re: Firefox endless crashing ... thx for your suggestions ...

2016-05-18 Thread joe
Thanks Alex and Brien: I will try the rename suggestion. In .mozilla, I found 24882 pending crash reports dating back to March 2013, about 24000 of them from two days in April 2015. Surely there cannot be any good reason or benefit in cluttering up the system with all these ancient crash reports

Re: Firefox endless crashing ...

2016-05-18 Thread joe
Brien wrote: > Try clicking the help ? Button then troubleshooting information. > Then try the refresh Firefox button. I did try that, and the system crashes when I hit the help button. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux

Re: Firefox endless crashing ...

2016-05-18 Thread Snyder, Alexander
Joe -- I know that Mint is built on Ubuntu. This post seems to suggest its been an ongoing problem: http://askubuntu.com/questions/254724/firefox-constantly-crashes-no-log They suggest: Make sure Firefox isn't running. Then rename ~/.mozilla to something else and see if Firefox still crashes.

Re: Firefox endless crashing ...

2016-05-18 Thread Brien Dieterle
Try clicking the help ? Button then troubleshooting information. Then try the refresh Firefox button. If that doesn't help you could rename the hidden Firefox folder in you home directory. Might be .mozilla Maybe you could create a new user and see if that user has issues, then you know it is y