Problems with Firefox Shutting Down

[Kori Ellis]

For the past 3-4 days, whenever I right click and save an image (I have to do this for my work a lot), then I get a pop-up message in Firefox that says sorry there's an error with firefox.exe and that the browser will be shutting down.



What could be causing this?

Thanks in advance,

Kori

[ElNono]

Check that you don't have something on you 'Recent Items' folder that might no longer be available, like a file on a remote server that's not reachable. That could be one cause.

[lefty]

For the past 3-4 days, whenever I right click and save an image (I have to do this for my work a lot), then I get a pop-up message in Firefox that says sorry there's an error with firefox.exe and that the browser will be shutting down.



What could be causing this?

Thanks in advance,

Kori

Have you tried to uninstall and reinstall ?

Also, if you have saved Firefox.exe, delete it.

[mouse]

You have to reinstall windows.

[dougp]

Do you have any special extensions installed Kori? Anything related to images specifically?

[sabar]

Download history is corrupted or virus scanning software is interfering.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_...download_files

[Kori Ellis]

Do you have any special extensions installed Kori? Anything related to images specifically?

No, I don't have any extensions.

Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I'll clear the download history and see if that helps.

[dougp]

Kori, you can also try a few of these: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

firefox.exe -safe-mode
firefox.exe -CreateProfile KoriEllisFirefox

You can also try resetting all the preferences by using the information from this site: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Resetting_preferences

Let me know if nothing works.

[Kori Ellis]

I cleared the download history and it's been working fine for the rest of the day.

Thanks everyone. I'll let you know if the problem comes back.

[koriwhat]

i had the same issues on my windows machine not so long ago... that machine is now linux and my main comp is a mac now. oh and safari is by far so much better and it's for windows too kori. check it out!