Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox 15

Posted by Raymond Law Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:23:00 GMT

For the past week, when I logged out of Yahoo Mail, it crashes my Firefox and all other tabs. This happened on both Ubuntu and Windows. Another proof that GMail >>>>>>>> Yahoo Mail. Their Ajax stuff already consumes a lot of bandwidth upon logging in, making my other tabs load slower. One of these days they will just annoy me to the point that I cancel my Yahoo account…

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    David 2 months later:

    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 2 months later:

    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 3 months later:

    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 3 months later:

    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 3 months later:

    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 :)

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    Harman 3 months later:

    So does anyone have a solution for this problem?

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    Charles 4 months later:

    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 4 months later:

    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…

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    Lucas 4 months later:

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

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    Satyajit 4 months later:

    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 4 months later:

    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 4 months later:

    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 5 months later:

    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:

    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 5 months later:

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

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    Doug 6 months later:

    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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