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Thanks, docorona. The update to Firefox 3.5.3 solved the problem. Glad to hear I wasn't alone! – Tim Toney, on October 09, 2009 01:02

Thanks, Thomas. My Macbook's been a workhorse for nearly 3 years. Maybe time for a visit to the local Mac Authorized Service for a check-up.

Good luck, Danielle

I tried to create a different user profile per Thomas' (see above) instructions using Mac Terminal. Unfortunately I seem to have a problem with Terminal: The command window opens every time as a tiny window that I have been unable to expand so that it could be used.



At that point I basically walked away from the problem. My hope is this is just a Firefox bug that will be solved with an update. The problem continues to show an inconsistent pattern: Some links now work while others do not. Generally I love Firefox. This is very disappointing. I can keep Safari running and cut-n-paste url's when needed. Clumsy, but better than nothing.

Sorry, I repeated the info about the platform. I'm old and retarded.

Some additional crashes this morning in an attempt to replicate the problem:

255b6356-f531-4f5b-af85-0f2372090420 4/20/09 10:42 AM
c7ceaa33-831e-4f9c-b361-0e1972090420 4/20/09 10:41 AM
b89a2207-e2d2-4a4e-999d-683202090420 4/20/09 10:39 AM

So far today, www.w3.org links appear to be working. Btw, I am on an Intel Mac if this matters (Macbook).

No. No problem going to the www.adobe.com. Yes, I'm on 3.0.8 now.

Here is a crash from today for www.wikipedia.org:

0a00d8a1-6627-41dd-a44f-1f6ab2090420 4/20/09 10:17 AM

I get it, Thomas. There have been various crashes in the past. I never noticed a specific pattern until the last couple of months with wikipedia and w3.org links. These links continue to crash almost every time. btw - did I mentioned I'm on an Intel Mac platform, if it matters. (Macbook)

[Hmm, does it also crash at Adobe.com per http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtop... and http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report... ?]

No. No problem is evident when I click on those links in your post.

Sorry, Thomas. I had no idea what you were talking about. I complied with what I "thought" you meant. Here are the "crash ids" going back to Jan09...

787118d2-3d7c-4742-a2c3-109352090326 3/26/09 5:23 PM
b5c4e7c0-667f-43b2-8d80-77ca12090326 3/26/09 4:51 PM
909dc3f1-a48a-4ad7-8d5b-195412090315 3/15/09 11:47 AM
fcd46c36-193d-4325-9c67-2ff862090314 3/14/09 2:11 PM
7c2418af-78ca-48e9-bea4-e0a122090314 3/14/09 2:08 PM
80c8ff1b-fefe-4115-95dc-0913c2090314 3/14/09 2:07 PM
e46999bd-bcef-4476-841a-413262090313 3/13/09 6:10 PM
9bd6654e-66c2-4f22-b65c-40aa02090313 3/13/09 6:08 PM
44a2f308-d339-409d-918d-aa3552090313 3/13/09 1:21 PM
3d6376ab-76ef-40c0-ae92-2a68a2090208 2/8/09 12:00 PM
ad9bbc25-b8ed-4311-956d-d2dcb2090207 2/7/09 1:18 PM
63a7cbba-f061-4554-90c7-622842090207 2/7/09 11:51 AM
7e433c4c-c398-46b1-abb1-76e292090207 2/7/09 11:50 AM
d1e5bd40-cf69-44aa-bc43-3c7352090203 2/4/09 12:04 AM
23ebe05d-acf1-4149-a84f-6bb262090128 1/28/09 8:25 AM
6352e476-eda8-49a0-916e-e71242090127 1/27/09 11:05 PM
1328d56e-4f56-466e-90eb-76b252090122 1/22/09 1:44 PM
f3fd5664-21d9-4c15-8b13-347b92090117 1/17/09 10:02 AM

There are more, going back to JUL08 if you want them.

Thanks for your help...

The following is the "Details" from the pop-up window after a typical crash:

Add-ons: {cf15270e-cf08-4def-b4ea-6a5ac23f3bca}:2.0.5,{c45c406e-ab73-11d8-be73-000a95be3b12}:1.1.5,{a0d7ccb3-214d-498b-b4aa-0e8fda9a7bf7}:20090325,{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}:3.0.8
BuildID: 2009032608
CrashTime: 1240153098
Email: timtnnc@yahoo.com
InstallTime: 1238201674
ProductName: Firefox
SecondsSinceLastCrash: 91254
StartupTime: 1240089054
Theme: classic/1.0
URL: about:blank
Vendor: Mozilla
Version: 3.0.8

This report also contains technical information about the state of the application when it crashed.

The website I was linking to was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS

This was just one of numerous examples of crashing for websites involving wikipedia.org or w3.org.

At this point I cannot use Mozilla/Firefox for either of these two important sites.

Tim Toney
Raleigh, NC