FYI: Firefox crashing when adding image to WordPress Post
Filed in Technology on May.29, 2009
Today I started experiencing a crash of Firefox whenever I tried to add an image to a WordPress post. I uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox to no avail. I finally did a Google search of “Firefox crashing when inserting image into WordPress” and found the answer to the problem. The problem is within Google Gears (which explains why I wasn’t having the problem with my laptop as Google Gears is not installed on it.)
If you uninstall Googe Gears (or disable it in the Firefox addons) the problem will go away. I’m not sure what caused this to happen all of a sudden but I was glad to find the answer and wanted to share it here.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Thanks. I’ve have the same problem. I will try disabling Gears and see it goes.
Sage Reply:
May 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Hope it works…let me know, ok?
May 29th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Yay, I googled this exact problem “wordpress crashes firefox” and found your site! I have google gears and will try to disable it. Thanks a lot!!
Sage Reply:
May 29th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
I hope it works for you. It certainly did for me. Let me know if you think about it, ok? Thanks for leaving a comment.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:03 am
Had exactly the same problem, uninstalled gears and it was all fine, thanks a lot for the help!
Sage Reply:
May 30th, 2009 at 11:06 am
You’re welcome. Thanks for letting me know it worked for you!
May 30th, 2009 at 10:20 am
It worked. I’m back up and running. I wonder what caused Gears to flake out suddenly.
Sage Reply:
May 30th, 2009 at 11:04 am
I don’t know but it was really weird. I’m glad it worked for you!
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 am
Just started having the same issue a few minutes ago. Googled and found you…going to disable Gears now. Hope that fixes it! Thanks for the post.
Amy Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 7:39 am
Disabled Gears in Add-ons, that did the trick. How strange! Thanks again…
Sage Reply:
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
You’re welcome. Thanks for letting me know it worked.