[COLUG] FireFox Misbehaving??

Bill Baker bill_chris at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 25 14:20:28 EST 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:00 -0500, Josh wrote:
> Howdy All,
> 
> Has anyone noticed that this latest update of FireFox is very 
> crash-happy?  There are a few Linux boxes (CentOS 5.1 specifically) on 
> which the FireFoxen regularly crash and offer to send a bug report.
> 
> This "feels" like a memory issue.  It happens mostly when I try to 
> download a file, before the box pops up asking for the directory into 
> which the file goes, the app segfaults.  However, if I go to the same site 
> and link, I can download the file.
> 
> I don't have many plugins activated - just Java and Flash.  Previous 
> versions of FireFox seem to behave themselves.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this?

I've noticed that occasionally under normal use Firefox will crash and
then I'll have to click on the icon a couple of times in order to get it
back up and running.



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