Is Snow Leopard crashing your Firefox?

Happily, I seem to have made it through my OS X upgrade to Snow Leopard relatively unscathed. One issue I had was with Firefox crashing shortly after launch before any page fully loaded. I checked out the Mozilla support forums and saw quite a few posts on the need to upgrade and/or uninstall Adobe Flash Player. I tried all that, tried upgrading from Firefox 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 and still had the same problem.

I finally found a solution here. I needed to rebuild the font caches by starting OS X in Safe Mode, then restarting my computer normally. It worked like a charm.

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