Firefox-Feedback=Crashing

[Gray]

Everytime i have Firefox running, maybe twice a day it will pop up and say if i want to give any feedback on how its running/stability etc.

As soon as the box pops up, Firefox crashes.

Is there anyway to stop the Feedback from becoming activated??

 

[JingleBells]

You have your equation the wrong way round I'm afraid. It should read:
Firefox + Crash = Feedback
Whenever it crashes this pops up (presumably like the send MS an error report in XP thing), are you visiting any particular sites, viewing media (movies/PDF) when it crashes?

 

[Shovel]

JingleBells is exactly right. Firefox has a crash-reporting feature called "Talkback" (which sounds horrid and spyware-ish, but it really isn't). Basically, when Firefox first crashes it will have loaded Talkback and offered you a choice of switching it on. In fact, installing Talkback is an optional part of the Firefox install (certainly when you do a custom install).

You can run it in a number of ways:
* Either you can switch it off, in which case Firefox will just crash.
* You can run it in a "silent" mode, whereby Firefox will crash and you'll just immediately send a dump of data relating to the Firefox crash to Mozilla's bug system.
* Or you can do the "full" mode whereby you send the automatically generated information plus some manual comments.

It's nothing evil and is also very useful to the Firefox devs. I run the second of those options myself

 

[TdC]

hehe SG, made me laugh there matey. I used to think the same as you, but that was back in the old netscape navigator days

 

[Gray]

i see...

Caught me a bit, since the Feedback would pop up before the error notification. Sure last time i tried to click on the Feedback it wouldnt let me tho.

Wil have to check next time