I have a problem that Firefox crashes whenever I try to customise the toolbar.
I experienced a BSOD after which all my firefox profile settings were screwed. I then discovered that when I tried to customise my toolbars, as soon as I clicked on 'customise', the customisation pop-up appeared for about 2-3 seconds and then FF crashed.
I decided to completely reinstall FF. I uninstalled then installed the latest version downloaded from Mozilla. No joy. Still getting crashes when attempting to customise the toolbar. A bit of searching turned up this on
Basic Troubleshooting
"Some malware programs may target the Firefox application file. The following instructions may help diagnose such a problem:
- From the menu at the top of the Firefox windowbar, select FileFirefox and then select the ExitQuit FirefoxQuit menu item.
- Open the Firefox application folder - by default, it is:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox. - Rename firefox.exe to firefox1.exe.
- Double-click firefox1.exe to launch Firefox.
- If Firefox runs without problems, some malicious code may be targeting Firefox (firefox.exe). Scan your computer for malicious code using the links above or your own antivirus or antispyware program."
So I tried renaming to firefox1.exe as suggested and bingo! No crashes when customising the toolbar. So I ran Spybot S&D and Adaware (I fairly regularly run S&D but had not run Adaware for some time). Nothing untoward showed up with S&D but Adaware showed an infection by Win32.backdoor.bifrose which I then removed. Still no joy. FF still crashes when I try to customise the toolbar when running as firefox1.exe but not when running as firefox.exe. However, I am a user of SignupShield, the toolbar for which does not appear when I run firefox1.exe.
So, at the moment, to customise my toolbar I rename to firefox1.exe, do the customisations, then rename back to firefox.exe and run that for normal running. But I'm a bit worried that there may still be some malware lurking that Adaware and S&D have not found. Does anyone have any suggestions what I could try next to isolate my problem?