Firefox Crashes on Gmail

Posted on 12/15/2006 by Adam
14 Comments |

Last week I noticed that every time I tried to compose an email in Gmail, Firefox would have a hard crash. I figured it was something in the javascript and left Gmail alone for a few days since it is Beta. This week I decided to try it again and I experienced the same behavior. In an effort to debug this problem I tried Gmail in all the browsers that I had installed. I had the same crash in Camino and Opera but it worked fine in Safari. After much poking around I found that my Palatino font was corrupted. After replacing the font everything was fine.

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Posted by klaus on November 22, 2007

same here, fixed the font and everything works - no more crashes. thank you for the hint.

Posted by Confused on April 16, 2008

Is this winxp?

Sorry to be dense, but how does one replace the font?

Posted by Robert on June 09, 2008

How do I find out if I have a corrupted font? I imported some fonts from my laptop, and also for my office computer and since then, I have been getting Firefox crashes when I close Gmail.

Posted by Travis on August 22, 2008

@Confused and @Robert This was happening on a Mac. This article will explain how to find corrupt fonts: http://www.lifespy.com/2007/mac-tips-find-and-eliminate-corrupt-fonts-in-osx/

Posted by Joe T. on December 24, 2008

Having the same problem described, but ONLY in Firefox (3.0.5). Opera (10a) has no problems with it.

Posted by Matze on January 05, 2009

I'm soo thankful!

Posted by Angelos on January 17, 2009

Hello. I have exactly the same problem but not on a mac. I m running windows and ie and chrome works fine. The problem is with FF 3.0.5.

Posted by Majesticskull on January 19, 2009

I have the same problem but in Windows XP SP2 with Firefox 3.0.5. Thanks for the help!

Posted by Majesticskull on January 20, 2009

Sorry por my bad english: Disable all extensions and restart firefox, then returned to normal, I was turning the extensions one by one and that was giving the problem was FoxyTunes! Then turn off FoxyTunes and it was all right!

Português: Desativei todas as extenções e reiniciei o firefox, logo voltou ao normal, fui ativando as extenções uma por uma e o que estava dando problema era o FoxyTunes! Então desativei e ficou tudo bem!

Posted by Luke on January 28, 2009

After much searching, I disabled all plugins and re enabled them one by one... Try this: disable the "Google Talk" plugin in the "add-ons" panel Works fine for me!

Maybe this plugin needs to be updated... I haven't tried yet

Posted by Conrad on February 25, 2009

you are right! were days I was looking for a solution many thanks

Posted by mtn akd on April 04, 2009

i had the same problem with firefox & Gmail in recent 2 weeks. accidently, i found a solution for this error. first, i tried to remember what changes i had made recently and finally i found the reason : GTalk plugin. i had removed GTalk plugin and firefox couldnt get on with GMail since then :) now i have restored GTalk installation and they are working together again with no problem. hope this helps you folks.

Posted by Wouter on April 17, 2009

Thanks Luke! I Disabled 'Google talk' plugin and it works fine for me now

Posted by Łukasz on May 30, 2009

Thanks, Luke! Disabling Google Talk plugin make Firefox not to crash anymore :D