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Gah. Your tab just crashed.?

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Firefox gives me a "Gah. Your tab just crashed." whenever I try to load a page. All pages do this. Steps that I tried to take to resolve this:

Started in Firefox in Safe Mode

Uninstalled all extensions

Refreshed, then reinstalled latest version of Firefox with new profile

In About:Config set browser.tabs.remote.auto to false and restarted. There is no remote.auto2; So I created one and set it to false then restarted.

I checked About:Crashes, but there are no crash reports.

I tried turning off hardware acceleration but clicking the open menu button does nothing.

I updated graphic card drivers to the latest version.

I rebooted my computer.

Other notes:

I had not installed any new software or updates prior to this happening.

All other browsers (Chrome and Microsoft Edge) work fine.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Firefox gives me a "Gah. Your tab just crashed." whenever I try to load a page. All pages do this. Steps that I tried to take to resolve this: Started in Firefox in Safe Mode Uninstalled all extensions Refreshed, then reinstalled latest version of Firefox with new profile In About:Config set browser.tabs.remote.auto to false and restarted. There is no remote.auto2; So I created one and set it to false then restarted. I checked About:Crashes, but there are no crash reports. I tried turning off hardware acceleration but clicking the open menu button does nothing. I updated graphic card drivers to the latest version. I rebooted my computer. Other notes: I had not installed any new software or updates prior to this happening. All other browsers (Chrome and Microsoft Edge) work fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Gah-Your-tab-just-crashed https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-troubleshoot-prevent-and-get-help

We have recently seen multiple reports that Bitdefender is causing issues with tab crashes in Firefox 73.

It looks that Bitdefender has pushed an update to address this issue 21 Feb 2020

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Gah-Your-tab-just-crashed https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-troubleshoot-prevent-and-get-help

We have recently seen multiple reports that Bitdefender is causing issues with tab crashes in Firefox 73.

It looks that Bitdefender has pushed an update to address this issue 21 Feb 2020

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Oh good. I do in fact have BitDefender. It must have just updated because the issue seems to have gone away. Thanks.

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Glad to help. Safe Surfing.