Photo Upload crashing FireFox

bump, really need help with this .. cant upload any pictures

The same happens for me!

It just started happening to me as well.

Several folks at WordPress.com complain of the same problem. I thought it might be something on my computer but can’t seem to find a problem, and other browsers work fine. Since it’s happening to them too I’m guessing it’s not a hosting issue.

Seems to be a conflict with Gears.

OK, I think I found the problem. I installed Gears on my XP FF install and it now crashes so it is some sort of conflict between Gears and FF 3.0.10.

Go to tools > addons and disable gears and your problems should go away.

Thank You
The fix worked for me.
Joe Styer
https://www.blackberrysites.com

Thank you for that as well, it’s fixed now.

Gears it is. Disable, and there it goes… so, what did I lose by disabling Gears? Any takers?

thank u! I will never ever put that stupid Google gears on again.

Hmm, me too! What’s odd is that I installed Google Gears a while back, and the upload/insert function worked fine until just today.

Disabling Gears for my site didn’t do the trick, I had to disable the add-on entirely.

I have the same problem, I have gears and it worked fine until an hour ago but disabling gears fixed it. WHY?

Very strange – the uploader always worked fine until today. I, too, uninstalled Gears thanks to LauraC’s suggestion and it seems to be fine now. Thanks!

Strange!

I installed Gears waaayyy back and today it starts messing with the uploader? Well, disabling it solved the problem – but still, it’s strange…

find it very odd too, disabled gears and uploader now working…. owell i didnt really see any major speed improvements with gears.

Another Gears solution–thanks! Firefox hasn’t picked up on it yet.