Save File Crashes Firefox

[man2016]

>80% of the time attempting to save an online image such as a .jpg will cause Firefox to hang requiring closing and restarting Firefox.

[Doug51]

Me too. FireFox freezes randomly when I try to "save image as". In fact almost every save attempt through FireFox results in the same freeze requiring the Taskmanager to close the program! Doug@awiz.com

[man2016]

Hi, Doug51. It hasn't happened lately and I'm wondering if it wasn't fixed in an update. Make sure your Firefox is up to date.

[Doug51]

Thanks for the reply. I'm running the latest FireFox 101.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows 11 64 GB memory with the latest weekly update. All of my other browsers work just fine. I have installed Microsoft Edge, Opera, Brave and FireFox. FireFox is the default. I keep hoping the developers will fix this issue in the next update but it hasn't happened yet. I've been dealing with this issue for a long time. A couple of years ago I had to move away from Mozilla Thunderbird because, after 15 years of perfect stability, it suddenly kept crashing. I really liked it but I no choice.  This bug is very annoying. I want to keep FireFox because I like the left Bookmarks bar and no one else has one that works as well.

[man2016]

Yep, crashing when trying to save an image (.jpg, .gif, etc.) is an ongoing problem. Doesn't happen all the time but enough that it is very annoying.

[wtfuwannaknow]

Happens every time I want to save a file, not only images

[JudeB]

Firefox crashes almost every time I save a Word document. Super annoying. Has been happening for months

[RealRaven]

Firefox 125.0.2 loves hanging (about every 3rd time) in Windows 10 Pro, when I save any document / image. Can't even start to write the file name and obviously not close the "save as..." window. Usually force crashing and restarting the browser solves it, but it's annoying when listening to a podcast on YouTube. I cleared my downloads and checked sync settings, but nothing helps. Using the download link on chrome always works. I wouldn't mind creating a new profile but I really really need my Fx account for password syncing.

[RealRaven]

sometimes it recovers when I wait 5 - 10 minutes but usually I am not patient enough to wait, so I force restart using Process Explorer, as closing Firefox directly through its UI is blocked out.