Fire Fox Crash Reports Overload

I was running a scan on my PC and it got stuck in this location for a while: "C:\Users\jakester\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\pending "
There were over 42,000 crash reports in that folder, most had been there for years. It took Windows over an hour to delete all that nonsense. That was like 18% of the total files on my box! Wow

 

Hi Jakester, Welcome to WindowsBBS.
Have a look at this from the Mozilla Forums:https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/941617

I'll have to have a look and see if I have "crash reports pending" stacked up. Neil.

This is probably easier to follow (I tried it-37 reports) :
• click Firefox button and click Options -> Advanced panel -> General tab -> Remove Checkmark from Submit Crash Reports
• click OK on Options window -> Close Firefox (click Firefox button and click Exit)
-> open Window Start Menu -> click Run.. -> in the Windows Run Box, type "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Crash Reports\pending" (with quotation marks) and hit Enter
• When the pending folder is opened, select All files -> press SHIFT + DEL and click Yes

 

How did you remove these files, Jake?

Easy Cleaner has an option to remove these kinds of files. Click on Unnecessary Files and click the appropriate check box (Extra files). I'm using Windows 7 by the way.

 

Thanks Pete, I can't confirm that without looking again at Mozilla but I tried it in my Vista FF 25 and it worked. Neil.