"Breakpad" is a new crash reporting system from Mozilla which is a core part of Mozilla Firefox 3.x, Thunderbird 3.x and SeaMonkey 2.x products. It was developed to replace the old "Quality Feedback Agent" aka "Talkback" present in previous versions.
Whenever any of these 3 Mozilla products crashes, Mozilla crash reporter shows a window asking you to send the crash report to Mozilla servers and allows you to quit or restart the application:
There was an option to disable "Quality Feedback Agent" aka Talkback in earlier versions but Mozilla didn't provide any option to disable this new crash reporter "Breakpad".
If you want to disable this crash reporter, you can do it by simply editing an INI file:
1. Open My computer and goto the installation directory of the application:
Mozilla Firefox: %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox
Thunderbird: %programfiles%\Mozilla Thunderbird
SeaMonkey: %programfiles%\mozilla.org\SeaMonkey
Here "%programfiles%" stands for "C:\Program Files" folder. Replace C: with your system drive letter where Windows is installed.
2. Now look for "application.ini" file and open it in Wordpad.
3. At the end of the file, you'll see following lines:
[Crash Reporter]
Enabled=1
ServerURL=https://crash-reports.mozilla.com/submit
4. Simply change the value of Enabled to 0 as following:
[Crash Reporter]
Enabled=0
ServerURL=https://crash-reports.mozilla.com/submit
5. Save the file and now you'll no longer see the Crash reporter window.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Mozilla Firefox, Troubleshooting.
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Nikolaj
Have you switched back to XP
VG
^^ lol no. But the screenshot was taken from XP.
Nikolaj
ok... thats good but i have a theme that makes my vista look totaly like XP
Ronak
thnks dude
Gigi
It didn't work for me its still pops up when I'm on Youtube!
Dodo
Firefox is going the Internet Explorer way :(
Anon
It's very stupid to disable this...
Because you dont sent crashlogs to fix bugs...
Idiotic !!!
tree
so good and it works with me as i open live messenger and try reaching my mail crash report stops me .i made whate you told and it clearly works very googd thanks great much
Ted Mielczarek
Note that this won't stop Firefox from crashing, you just will no longer get the helpful Crash Reporter application, which lets you submit details of the crash so that developers can fix it. I'm not sure why you'd want to do that.
aqaq
nothing a solution