How do you prevent Firefox from crashing?

[Gore Obsessed]

Nowadays, firefox is crashing like no tomarrow, especially when I am downloading more then 3 files. Is there any way to make firefox crash less?

For instance, sometimes I am not downloading anything at all, I go on MX and it freezes for no apparent reason. I get the message, "Firefox has encountered an unknown error" blah blah blah.

[TheTastyLettuce]

Yeah I get that every so often.

I don't really mind to be honest, only takes like 5 seconds to load back up again, so yeah :p

[Rats!]

Downgrade to v1.0.7

[Scoot]

It does that a lot.

Usually when I'm in the middle of something important.

[Noyana]

you don't

[JohnXDoe]

Interesting, it never crashes on me. Never. But I have heard of the problem. Uninstall/reinstall might do the trick and/or a registry clean up, as well.

I currently have severeal progams open and FF is taking 103,723 mb's of memory, though. That is a bit unusual, although not unheard of....

[Gore Obsessed]

I'd downgrade, but i dont want to lose all my bookmarks and stuff. It could also be the fact I am still on a 256 stick of RAM. Anyways, how do I downgrade without losing anything?

[DJ Ducksauce]

Downgrade to v1.0.7
I've heard about bunches of problems with 1.5, but I'm using it, and it works fine.

Check for viruses or spyware too.

[Zakath]

I'm on 1.5 and haven't had a problem. In fact, I had trouble using v1.0.something, but when I upgraded I didn't have any more crashing.