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Cc: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.3 and 9.0 freeze with firefox
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Hi,

On Friday 30 March 2012 09:28:06 Joseph Olatt wrote:
> 
> Starting with 8.3, I've been experiencing FreeBSD freezing up completely
> after using firefox for a while. Thinking the problem would go away if I
> upgraded to 9.0, I did that and I am still experiencing the same
> freezing up. The mouse pointer freezes, the keyboard freezes (caps lock
> light will not come on; Ctrl-Alt-F[1-10] does not work etc.). The only
> way to get the system back is by pressing and holding down the power
> button. 
> 
> The problem seems similar to: kern/163145
> 
> 
> There is nothing in /var/log/messages to indicate a problem. Output of 
> pciconf -lv and uname -a are at:
> 
> http://www.eskimo.com/~joji/wisdom/
> 
> Anybody else experiencing similar freeze ups with 8.3 or 9.0 while using
> firefox?
> 
I use 8.3 and Firefox without problems. What extension did you install? Are they all properly updated?

Earlier, it helped deleting firefox' directory in the user directory.

Erich