18 responses to “Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox”

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   David December 18th, 2007 at 14:47

   I’ve been experiencing the same thing here, using Firefox 2 on a Win/XP machine. Happens nearly all the time whenever I leave Yahoo mail. And it isn’t just trying to logout but simply just navigating away by clicking on a bookmark or typing in a new URL in the address bar.

   I have a hunch it isn’t entirely Yahoo mail – obviously there is something on their site that is causing it. But I only recently started experiencing this issue and I think it started around the time of the last Firefox update. I’m running version 2.0.0.11 now.

   Hoping I stumble on a resolution, otherwise this is quickly going to cause me to cancel my Yahoo account as well.

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   Raymond Law December 19th, 2007 at 15:13

   David, I think this happens on all platforms. I’ve seen it on Windows, Ubuntu Feisty, and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. The situation has improved somewhat because Firefox crashes less frequently, but it still occasionally crash. I think the problem could be Firefox though because the browser really should not crash because of a website’s code…

   Nonetheless, Yahoo Mail sucks. They charge you for accessing it using POP/SMTP. GMail recently added SMTP support, which is golden. I will soon start to migrate all my mails from Yahoo to GMail. But I don’t really want to have to forward mails from Yahoo to my Gmail account. Is there a better way to do that?

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   Dejan February 5th, 2008 at 07:40

   This happening to me also. I am using firefox 2.0.0.11.
   You people talking aboug gmail but this happens to me with gmail also!!

   With yahoo mail it is more often, but happens with gmail too

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   Raymond Law February 5th, 2008 at 15:28

   GMail is fine for me although I rarely use the Web interface anymore after I got Apple Mail to work with GMail using IMAP.

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   Dejan February 6th, 2008 at 06:10

   Yes me too – but sometimes I use web interface for GMail and yahoo mail.
   I tried imap for GMail with thunderbird – it seems too slow so i give up

   But back to problem – I found solution for this problem on some forum – firebug add on was guilty.
   Since I disabled it firefox is stable

6. 

   Harman February 13th, 2008 at 15:26

   So does anyone have a solution for this problem?

7. 

   Charles February 16th, 2008 at 19:42

   Yahoo! Mail beta crashes Firefox 2.0.0.12 (and all previous releases from the last few months) for me almost every time I sign out (not every time, but most of the time).

   Does this have anything to do with why Yahoo! fired their entire design team today (2/16/08)? Hmmm.

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   Raymond Law February 17th, 2008 at 18:42

   I am running Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Mac OS 10.5, and this problem seems to lesson. However, Firefox itself crashes way too often. It definitely has some memory leak problems. I hope this does not turn into another Netscape.

   Maybe I should switch to Safari, but Firefox plugins are too good to dump…

9. 

   Lucas February 24th, 2008 at 07:12

   Best solution for this problem is to switch your Yahoo! account back to classic mail.

10. 

    Satyajit March 1st, 2008 at 00:11

    Can someone suggest some remedy? Neither switching away from YaWho mail is an option, nor not using Firefox an option for me (though I could use Safari, but I am way used to Firefox). Its become an irritation now.

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    slc5 March 10th, 2008 at 13:37

    Okay.. this might sound weird, but when I set my preferred content (Account Information > Member Information > Preferred Content in the classic view) to India (did not test with other markets) and switch back to the Ajax version.. firefox no longer crashes for me. Of course, I am stuck with Yahoo India service.. with which I don’t have huge problems right now.. as long as logging out of Y Mail! does not close the other 6 open tabs. =)

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    Eric Pfleckl March 11th, 2008 at 14:57

    I’m running Firefox 2.0.0.12 and was consistently crashing after closing Yahoo! Mail and clicking away. This link had instructions that helped me: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_crashes#Yahoo.21_Application_State

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    Eric March 18th, 2008 at 21:40

    I don’t know if this will help you guys but this is what fixed it for me: I had the Firebug addon installed. At work, disabling Firebug for the following sites prevents the problem:

    login.yahoo.com

    and

    us.mg1.mail.yahoo.com

    At home, that wasn’t good enough to prevent the problem and I had to add a third blocked site:

    http://www.yahoo.com

    It’s a shame the developer of Firebug doesn’t seem to be actively maintaining the addon lately. Did yahoo purchase it or at least is maybe part of the development process ? Seems like I read that somewhere once.

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    Vinod April 7th, 2008 at 15:15

    I disabled Firebug, it still crashes. Is anyone from Yahoo! listening???

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    Doug April 23rd, 2008 at 22:13

    2.0.14 still crashes on XP and Mac OSX. Whenever I close Yahoo mail. I do use firebug, so I’ll have to try the above fix.

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    Raymond Law March 10th, 2010 at 18:16

    Melvina,

    It has been a while since this blog post. I am using Firefox 3.6 and Yahoo Mail hasn’t crashed for the last year.

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