Comments on: Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox

By: Raymond Law

Raymond Law — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:16:50 +0000

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.

By: Melvina Romanowicz

Melvina Romanowicz — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:06:46 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:13:36 +0000

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.

By: Vinod

Vinod — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:15:14 +0000

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

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:40:58 +0000

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:

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.

By: Eric Pfleckl

Eric Pfleckl — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:57:26 +0000

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

By: slc5

slc5 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:37:49 +0000

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. =)

By: Satyajit

Satyajit — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:11:43 +0000

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.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:12:14 +0000

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

By: Raymond Law

Raymond Law — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:55 +0000

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…