Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

On Sat, 2025-08-16 at 01:07 +0100, alain williams wrote:

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 04:58:36PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:

p.s.  Does anybody know how to dump all Firefox settings to a plaintext

file?  Browse to "about:config", enter "*" in the search box, and save the

page?

Another thing to try is to return FF to its virgin state.

• Stop FF

• Rename .mozilla as .mozilla.crashes

• Run FF and see if it crashes your system

• When done testing remove the newly created .mozilla and rename

.mozilla.crashes as .mozilla

Are all of my bookmarks stored in .mozilla? Can I back them up?

I assume that if renaming .mozilla to .mozilla.crashes results in not observing any crashes for a while, and concluding that might be the cause, putting it back would probably cause crashes. In fact, running the two-way experiment several times might be more convincing than not seeing a crash for a day or two.

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