Firefox crashing on clicking Image Uploader

thesacredpath · Member · May 29, 2009 at 2:25 am
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I went back and forth several times and with Gears active, FF crashes. With Gears disabled, no problems.
thesacredpath · Member · May 29, 2009 at 2:26 am
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Thanks for the verification on that ramblerkudos.
joestyer · Member · May 29, 2009 at 2:29 am
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Nice catch thesacredpath. This fixed it for me.
Thank You
Joe Styer
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ismailimail · Member · May 29, 2009 at 3:25 am
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You got it right. Disabling gears fixes the issue. Thanks.
cube1122 · Member · May 29, 2009 at 3:35 am
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Winner. Now, visit my blog kooks! Thanks!
aw1923 · Member · May 29, 2009 at 3:55 am
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tsp, you are like genius to think about that. I never found gears to make my browser faster so I uninstalled it a while ago so I didn’t have this problem. Not like any of this is relevant but I wanted to say good catch =D
pen4hire · Member · May 29, 2009 at 4:40 am
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I just had the problem today, and am going to go try disabling Gears. Hope that works.
thesacredpath · Member · May 29, 2009 at 4:49 am
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@sensico, after I had tried and couldn’t get it to fail, I realized that I didn’t have Gears running, and all of a sudden thought that might be the issue and sure enough it was. Funny though Gears and Firefox on my Mac get along just fine with wordpress. Go figure.

Gears seemed to have made a difference on my ThinkPad with XP (which has a slow 1GHz PIII processor and only 512mb of ram), but on my Mac laptop with the core 2 duo, it made little difference. I have it disabled on my Mac, and since I seldom use the ThinkPad, I doubt I’ll re-enable it.
islandcrisis · Member · May 29, 2009 at 11:47 am
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Gears make mine abt 5 times faster. But now I have to disable this for firefox to work??? I am having this problem since today morning here.

No other solution and what is the real cause?
mark · Member · May 29, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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Disallow Gears and clear its cached information.
Then restart and all should be good.
The fault here is in Gears not using the correct information.
loyalpk · Member · May 29, 2009 at 1:31 pm
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I am experiencing the same problem and just googled… when i try upload an image it crashes firefox :/
loyalpk · Member · May 29, 2009 at 1:35 pm
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alright disabling gears worked !
beautifulbathplugs · Member · May 29, 2009 at 11:37 pm
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I’ve been having this problem too – thanks so much everyone!
lesleychang · Member · May 29, 2009 at 11:53 pm
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Disabling gears did not work for me.
lesleychang · Member · May 29, 2009 at 11:56 pm
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Still having firefox crash every time I try and upload a pic – have cleared cache and restarted a million times. Also cannot upload images with chrome – pic just turns out to be a broken image even though the image is there. Have tried this with several different pictures.

Help?
beautifulbathplugs · Member · May 30, 2009 at 5:05 am
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Hmm.. disabling gears didn’t work for me either. I’ll try logging out, and clearing stuff… Will let you know if I have any success Lesley.
thesacredpath · Member · May 30, 2009 at 5:25 am
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If FF is still crashing after disabling gears, go to tools > addons and uninstall it. One person reported that the problem would not go away till they uninstalled it. And if that does not work, then temporarily switch to another browser such as IE, Chrome or Safari till this gets cleared up.

Brian (staff) says they are working on a fix.
beautifulbathplugs · Member · May 30, 2009 at 6:04 am
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Thanks!
nicknormal · Member · May 30, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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I confirm, disabling Gears on FF 3.0.10 fixes the problem of FF crashing simply by pressing the square box image upload button.

nice find. thanks!
mijatrosa · Member · May 30, 2009 at 5:29 pm
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confirm on this, too. FF 3.0.10 chrashes when clicking on image uploding icon in edit post/page screen disappeared when uninstalling Gears. Thanks for this all of you!

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