Firefox just crashed on me. Had a couple of Firefox instances open and a bunch of tabs. All lost to the bit bucket now. So much for Firefox being reliable. 
that sucks.
never used firefox, heard its good though.
Bummer man.
I’ve gotten that one on the bottom before, and it eventually ate my computer alive…but you’re smarter about things like that than I am, so you should be able to fix it.
Computers suck.
Posted the screen capture just to prove that it can happen and to show what it looks like. Glad to see that the Firefox team is sorry. It made me feel all better.
This was Firefox running on Windows XP with a cool KH wallpaper.
Next challenge will be to get a picture of Linux crashing.
Bahahahahahahahaha… budum ch!
Yeah, sucks about your firefox crashing.
If it’s any consolation, mine’s still running fine and I wouldn’t even consider reverting back to IE.
I highly reconmend it.
Ed
I want to try IE 7 once it is released for XP (and then Vista). It sounds like it does a good job with the tab interface and I’m curious about how it works out.
I’ve also been playing on and off with Opera. But Opera does some things that are different and I can’t quite get used to it so I haven’t been using it much.
I view browsers like text editors. Sure, people get religious about their choice of text editor. But changing text editors isn’t that big of a deal and there are plenty of choices. Web browsers should be the same way.
That’s because you evidently use rubbish text editors. If you used a proper text editor you’d understand… 
Phil
You might wanna run memscan or some other program like that. Just to make sure it was firefox’s fault and not your ram going funky. That’s a wierd error. When I started getting errors like that it was a precursor to my ram failing.
i avoid that problem
i use opera
when i used firefox i thought “i’m never going back to IE”, when i got opera i thought “i’m never going back to firefox”
Based on the error, I’d guess it’s bad ram, and a poor handling of the error in the kernel. The error message looks like a standard windows error message, not one from firefox saying they are sorry. Firefox probably couldn’t do anything about it.
The other possibility is that Firefox tried to read memory that it didn’t create, and therefore didn’t have permission to read it.
Firefox has been very stable on my Mac. I have some apps that crash, but can’t remember if Firefox is among them. Dreamweaver definitely disappears rather regularly (MX version).
I prefer Firefox as the best Mac browser for me, though the other day I came across the very rare instance of a site that doesn’t behave properly in Firefox, but does in Safari! Carnival Cruise Lines, get your act together!
The application error dialog is a Windows error dialog. Firefox has some sort of handler that catches the error and puts up the “sorry” dialog.
The usual cause of those errors is a memory pointer in the code that has been mishandled. The pointer ends up pointing to memory that it shouldn’t. Then the program tries to read or write to that memory and the OS won’t let it.
I’ll run a memory test scan to test my RAM, but I don’t expect to find a problem with the RAM.
yea get a mac…they are 10x better. Like you said above me, sometimes applications will unexpectedly close, but never anything like what happens in windows
You’re talking about vi, right? 
Though they are about equally likely to suffer from RAM problems. My Firefox did “freeze up” on me today, and I recall that it does do this from time to time. When it does I have to close and re-open, losing any unsaved tabs in the process.
Ok well this is the same topic (kind of)…I just downloaded firefox today and I am just wondering what is the difference between firefox and safari? They just look slightly different, is firefox better?
lol just use explorer guyz its the best.
Ew. Especially untrue for Mac users. The latest version of IE for the Mac is dated 2001. Microsoft no longer supports it, nor offers it as a download.
I prefer IE7 to Firefox 1.5 in terms of tabbed browsing. I prefer Firefox to IE6. We’ll see about Firerfox 2.0
What excactly are these tabs things I hear everyone talking about? Picture please? =p