Raymond Law: Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox

Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox

Raymond Law — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:23:00 -0400

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…

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Doug

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:13:36 -0400

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.

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Vinod

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:15:14 -0400

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

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Eric

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:40:58 -0400

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:

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.

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Eric Pfleckl

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:57:26 -0400

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

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by slc5

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:37:49 -0400

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. =)

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Satyajit

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:11:43 -0500

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.

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Lucas

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:12:14 -0500

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

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Raymond Law

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:42:55 -0500

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…

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Charles

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:42:10 -0500

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.

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Harman

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:26:57 -0500

So does anyone have a solution for this problem?

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Dejan

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:10:33 -0500

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 :)

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Raymond Law

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:28:07 -0500

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

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Dejan

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:40:03 -0500

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 :(

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by Raymond Law

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:13:58 -0500

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?

"Yahoo Mail crashes Firefox" by David

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:47:22 -0500

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.