Twitter keeps crashing Firefox?
I use Firefox daily on all of my devices, both at home and at work. And only on one of them it always crashed whenever I accessed twitter.com. I’ve tried everything in their KB, including multiple resets, safe mode, deleting cache, cookies, and other data, to no avail.
Then I’ve finally figured it out – it only seems to happen when there are twitter cookies (if I delete them, the login screen loads correctly; when I try to log in, FF crashes) and when the hardware acceleration is disabled. So if you’re encountering this problem, try going to Options > Advanced > General
and check Use hardware acceleration when available
.
Now if you have it disabled in the first place, it probably is because it caused some problems, since it’s enabled by default. (In my case, pages turn to all black when scrolling.) So here’s to hoping they get around to fixing it. I’ve tried tweeting them both about the problem and I’m putting this here so I don’t forget it. :)