From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 14 10:42:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 789E716A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:42:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.magma.ca (mx2.magma.ca [206.191.0.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1178C43D31 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:42:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Received: from in3.magma.ca (in3.magma.ca [206.191.0.249]) by mx2.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id i6EAgQYV013165 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 06:42:26 -0400 Received: from mx1.sohotech.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-169-251.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.169.251]) by in3.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id i6EAgQga007689 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 06:42:26 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.18] ([192.168.1.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.sohotech.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6EAgO7V005305 for ; Wed, 14 Jul 2004 06:42:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Message-ID: <40F50E46.90309@grokking.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 06:43:18 -0400 From: Ed Budd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.1 (X11/20040711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40F4D958.5020106@snu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <40F4D958.5020106@snu.ac.kr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 Subject: Re: Mozilla 1.7 more unstable than 1.6? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:42:27 -0000 Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just upgraded my mozilla install from ports collection to version > 1.7. > > Since then, mozilla seems to crash frequently (once a day or so) when > webbrowsing. When I then revisit the same page it crashed on, there is no > problem. This makes the error rather unreproducible. > > (Much less frequent I had hangs with Mozilla 1.6, but that seemed to > be related to difficult webpage designs, which hanged Mozilla each > time I visited the site; with "hang" I mean, mozilla windows are still > there, but no reponse to key or mouse input anymore). > > Apparently there's some bugs in 1.7 that accumulate and then crash > the application; "crash" means here that all mozilla windows simply > disappear, instantly gone. > > Anybody else experiences this? > > I wonder if it's a mozilla bug or a more freebsd related issue. > These are my installed ports (related to Mozilla): > mozilla-1.7,2 > jdk-1.4.2p6_4 > linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.05 > linux-flashplugin-6.0r79_1 > linuxpluginwrapper-20040310_2 > mplayerplug-in-2.66 > plugger-5.1.2 > > > Regards, > Rob. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I used to have issues with older Mozilla (1.3?) hanging (mouse/cursor freezing, etc.) when accessing certain websites. In my case these issues disappeared once I disabled "find as you type" in the options. Did you try a google search describing the phenomenon? That's how I eventually got the idea to disable this (mis)feature. Just a thought... EB