445914 - firefox has encountered a problem & needs to close

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[g.morangie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16

This message has come up probably 20 times since I updated 3 weeks ago. No common website, no idea what is the cause. Upon restart it sometimes brings up the "Mozilla updated" page. I always use multiple tabs for browsing

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on a hyperlink (no common site or link) or for no reason
2."firefox has encountered a problem & needs to close" displays & browser closes
3.



Have allowed reports to MS a couple of times

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You should probably upgrade to FF3.0 

Comment 2

[u88484]

This bug was reported using a version of Firefox that security and stability updates are no longer provided for.  All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3 by selecting 'Check for Updates' in the Help menu or by going to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

If you can no longer reproduce this bug using the latest Firefox 3.0.x version, please change the status of this bug to 'RESOLVED' 'WORKSFORME'.

If you can still reproduce this bug, please provide additional details to help resolve this issue.

Comment 3

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Resolving as WORKSFORME.  If the issue appears in Firefox 3.5, we will reopen it.