From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 22:10:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3DE16A417 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:10:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1134213C46E for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 54916 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jan 2008 21:44:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (spork@216.220.116.154) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 15 Jan 2008 21:44:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:44:12 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: Christian Walther In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0801150106xce6cb02uaf101815cdb34af0@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <200801150639.m0F6dkPB050724@tantivy.tantivy.net> <14989d6e0801150106xce6cb02uaf101815cdb34af0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Bob Vaughan , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does firefox keep locking up on me? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:10:56 -0000 Hey all, On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Christian Walther wrote: > Hello Bob, > > On 15/01/2008, Bob Vaughan wrote: >> I've been having a problem on one particular machine with Firefox locking up >> on me, requiring a hard kill to get rid of it. >> >> The problem is thus: Firefox starts normally, but as soon as I go to a >> site that requires authentication, or any other form of user input, >> It will freeze as soon as I start entering my userid. > [...] >> >> Any ideas where to start looking? > > Since you've done nearly everything that could affect a binary working > properly, I think we can rule out a problem with the base system, X or > the browser itself. > I guess the problem might be related to your ~/.mozilla directory. I > noticed that a large variety of problems might be related to something > been broken inside it. > This might be an extension that might be incompatible and that isn't > installed on any of the other machines. > I'd recommend you to shut down firefox, open a terminal window and > rename the directory to something different. Please note that it > contains all settings you've made in *any* mozilla product (sunbird, > thunderbird). > Start firefox again and give it a try. Another neat trick that I oddly enough learned using OS-X is to just setup a new user on the box and reserve it for checking out odd problems that might be caused by any user-specific settings. This has really helped me out a number of times. Very different OSes, but both end up with a ton of user-specific stuff in $HOME... Charles > HTH > Christian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >