Firefox Gets Crash Protection
By Harry McCracken | Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.4, a security and stability update with one significant new feature: Crash protection designed to stop Flash, SilverLight, and QuickTime from taking the whole browser with them when they choke. The new capability mirrors one which was a much-touted one in Google’s Chrome from the start.
(Semi-related side note: On OS X, for me, Chrome’s crash protection doesn’t stop Flash from frequently freaking out in a manner that renders the browser unusable until I manually kill and relaunch it. Technically, it’s not crashing–but the end result is just as irritating.)
Firefox’s crash protection is for Windows and Linux only; it won’t reach OS X until Firefox 4 ships. If you try it and notice a difference–or don’t–let us know.
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June 22nd, 2010 at 4:57 pm
You got the version number wrong – it’s 3.6.4.
Mozilla REALLY needs to ramp up their release schedule. This is a great feature for Firefox to finally be getting, but it seems like it’s been in the nightly builds forever.
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Thanks for the correction, Mike–my brain knew the version number, but my fingers didn’t…
–Harry
June 23rd, 2010 at 1:36 am
I guess the issue you are experiencing with OS X version are due to, well, crash protection being actually missing from that version.
From Firefox 3.6.4 crash protection FAQ: “The technology used for crash protection requires major changes to Firefox on Mac OS X, and so we are unable to provide this feature to users on that operating system at this time. Crash protection will be available for Mac OS X in Firefox 4.”
Bummer.
(and I am pretty sure this feature won’t be supported on PPC builds anyway, for one silly reason or another)
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:38 am
If only they’d speed up the javascript performance…
June 24th, 2010 at 1:02 am
Nevermind and scrap my previous comment – I thought you wrote “Firefox’s crash protection” instead 😛 that’s what happens when exhaustion by browsing kicks in, you see what you’re thinking about rather than what’s actually on screen…
October 26th, 2010 at 6:56 am
i have still this problem. someone have a solution for it? how i can find out that flash is the part that freeze the firefox and not an other part of firefox?
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December 20th, 2011 at 5:29 am
Mozilla REALLY needs to ramp up their release schedule. This is a great feature for Firefox to finally be getting, but it seems like it's been in the nightly builds forever.
January 11th, 2012 at 12:41 am
Nevermind and scrap my previous comment – I thought you wrote "Firefox's crash protection" instead 😛 that's what happens when exhaustion by browsing kicks in, you see what you're thinking about rather than what's actually on screen.
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