Mozilla Adds Firefox Plug-in Crash Protection
Found on eWEEK on Tuesday, 22 June 2010
In Firefox 3.6.4, Mozilla has included protections to keep crashes caused by third-party plug-ins from disrupting the user's browsing experience. Right now, this feature is only available for Windows and Linux users.
"When a plug-in crashes or freezes while using Firefox, users can enjoy uninterrupted browsing by simply refreshing the page."
According to Mozilla, as many as one in three Firefox browser crashes are caused by problems with various third-party plug-ins.
Here I'm stuck with the other two in three reasons for crashes. No plugins or extensions installed, but Firefox still crashes about once a week for no obvious reason and can only be restarted after restoring a backup profile.