Firefox browser used to crash more often in older days not that much with version 56+, the browser has way improved in performance and stability. The new Firefox crashes less these days, whenever Mozilla browser crashes due to a script or web page, the browser disappears and Mozilla Crash Reporter pops up and asks the user to send the crash report to Mozilla, so that the Firefox team investigates the reason for the crash and fixes the issue in future versions. Mozilla Crash reporter offers the options to restart or quit Firefox browser.
If you’re using Nightly or dev or beta version of Firefox that prone to crash more due to bugs, or for some other reasons, if you wan to disable crash reporter in Firefox , you can do that, here is how.
Disabling Mozilla Crash Reporter in Firefox
1. Navigate to Firefox installed directory in Program Files
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
2. Search for ‘application’ file, select, right click and choose open with Wordpad or Notepad
3. Look for [Crash Reporter], and change Enable value to 0 from default 1.
4. Click on save button to apply the changes and exit. Done, crash reporter has been disabled in Firefox browser.
Do note unchecking ‘Allow Firefox to send crash reports to Mozilla’ option under ‘Firefox Data Collection and Use’ in Privacy & Security Settings has no effect on Firefox Crash Reporter.
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you have to open wordpad as administrator and then edit the (application.ini) file. You almost have to do any system change as admin in Windows 7. Sucks
This is not working in FF 36 linux for me.
The instructions are for Windows and they’re worked also, sorry can’t help if you’re on Linux. Check this, this might help you http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28393544/disable-crash-reports-of-firefox-in-linux
just rename crashreporter.exe to crashreporter.exe.bak and crashreporter.ini to crashreporter.ini.bak. Problem solved and now wait till the next update.
Thank you, Cooksad, for the reminder. Wordpad presents the correct formatting.
And thank you John P. Trying the .bak solution . . . until the next update which I presume requires doing the .bak solution again. It’s worth the small amount of time compared to the freezing of unnecessary crashreporting which takes complete control of all computer resources – of course at inopportune moments.
That’s my experience, too, M.G. The crashreporter takes over all computer resources and freezes it for 5 minutes. I’m amazed Firefox has not fixed this after all this time.