[COLUG] FireFox Misbehaving??

[Rob Stampfli]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:00:43PM -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?

Yes, I have.  And I think it is largely due to a buggy Shockwave
Flash plugin, even though it usually does not directly correspond
to the use of Flash.  I first noticed it when I upgraded to the
latest version of Flash and when I backed out to version 9.0 r48,
the instabilities cleared up.  (Linux Flash is still buggy, and
killing a tab in which it has been run will still sometimes cause
Firefox to hang, but that's a separate issue that's been around
for a while.)

[Ubuntu feisty and gutsy, firefox 2.0.0.11]

(the other) Rob