Firefox 3.6.4 with Crash Protection Now Available

[DXRick]

I switched to Firefox over a year ago, because IE was crashing all the time. I have never had Firefox crash on me yet!

 

[gm0n3y]

Been using Chrome for the most part for general browsing. Firefox is still the best for development and compatibility though. Great to hear that it is getting more stable. Now they just need to fix the memory leak and separate the tabs into their own processes.

I'd also like to know how long Google is going to continue funding Firefox.

 

[lauxenburg]

I have been a long time Firefox user until 2 days ago. The 3.6.4 update messed screwed up my proxy settings, not malware induced. Denied me access to the internet.Had to do a Windows restore to get return back to an older version. Restore wound up screwing with the ATI driver. Had to USB drive install that...yuck. What a mess. Chrome is now my browser preference.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]lauxenburg[/nom]I have been a long time Firefox user until 2 days ago. The 3.6.4 update messed screwed up my proxy settings, not malware induced. Denied me access to the internet.Had to do a Windows restore to get return back to an older version. Restore wound up screwing with the ATI driver. Had to USB drive install that...yuck. What a mess. Chrome is now my browser preference.[/citation]
Couldn't you have changed your proxy settings back?

 

[louiecog]

This has been nice as my crashes happen less often, though it still doesn't fix my stupid computer's problem of when flash or something else crashes, it crashes my audio drivers as well. So I get to keep FF up but I have no sound. Then I have to restart anyways. I wish I could find a fix for that.

 

[seriousazn]

[citation][nom]regulas[/nom]I love it, all I needed to say was I use a Mac and the haters start giving thumbs down. Mac Mac Mac, you MS trolls.[/citation]
you get thumbs down from me cuz your post is irrelevant....

 

[drutort]

something isnt working i had maybe 30 crashes with win7 64bit and all have to do with new flash update a while ago, and its really annoying and no i dont see it working as crash protection, the whole browser goes down just cause of flash for some reason

 

[TheDuke]

this is great
i've already had flash crash a couple times and it was nice for it not to bring down my browser. I remember watching the E3 stream on youtube and I had to give up on it because after a few minutes watching it would crash on me

 

[maddad]

I keep hearing about how great Chrome is over Firefox. I primarily use Firefox, but I have used Chrome also. On Facebook the flash plugin for Chrome crashed often while playing Farmville and Cafeworld. Most of it is caused by poorly written games on Facebook in my opinion. (That's why they are all still "beta" versions). Firefox on the other hand never had a problem for me.

 

[dEAne]

Finally thank you. I hope this works.

 

[JonnyDough]

Good news since the internet is being sold by the bit these days...now I won't have to reload all my tabs and go over my 5GB monthly limit. Bleh.

 

[kelemvor4]

[citation][nom]toxxel[/nom]I must have a rare system, but Firefox never crashes on my main system. I've heard about it's frequent crashing but never really ever experienced it.[/citation]

+1 lol. Don't run plugins that suck and make sure your overclocks are stable.

 

[jacobdrj]

I never claimed Chrome was as customizable. It isn't. But Chrome has enough of the add-ons I use and has been much much more stable than Firefox ever since FF 3.5. FF 3.5 was Firefox' own worst enemy to further market penetration.

 

[jacobdrj]

[citation][nom]kelemvor4[/nom]+1 lol. Don't run plugins that suck and make sure your overclocks are stable.[/citation]
WOT, BetterPrivacy, Adobe Flash, FoxIt, Silverlight, Flashblocker, FlagFox. Those are the only ones I used. Basic stuff. If FF can't handle that, than I can't use FF...
Chrome still has issues rendering some web pages, including TomsHardware. But that is why I still keep what had been the unstable FF 3.5-3.6 FF around at all. This last update has been a HUGE improvement for FF making it feel a lot more like FF 3.4 in terms of speed and stability. But that was 6 months of people FF will never get back.