On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:29:49AM -0500, James Miller wrote: > Is anyone else having problems with Mozilla and/or Mozilla Firefox under > unstable? For the last tow weeks, despite numerous dist-upgrades, I've > been unable to get either to run without frequent crashing. At first, > Mozilla wouldn't start at all but just segfault. I finally fixed that by > renaming the ~/.mozilla driectory. Now, Mozilla will start - as will > Mozilla Firefox - but each crashes (simply vanishes from the screen) under > very simple browsing conditions. For example, to make Mozilla crash, all > I have to do is try to navigate to Google: poof, the browser vanishes > after I accept (or reject) the cookie. To crash Firefox, all I have to do > is try to view the "about" page. These are just two examples of things > that reproduceably crash the browser: I'm sure with more experimentation, > I could cite others. Bottom line though is that something's really wrong > here. The browsers are essentially unuseable. This sort of typical > browsing should not cause either browser to crash like this. Anyone else > having these problems? I need my graphical browser back! > > James > > PS Last apt-get update dist-upgrade was this morning. I use Fluxbox WM - > no KDE or Gnome here. >
I also get it on some sites (not google though). Had a form on one site that crashed the browser as soon as I pressed a key. Its also got some insane memory usage, got to 100MB-200MB for firefox. This is with 0.9, I think from experimental, but not sure. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
