Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:44:12 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net> To: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Cc: Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does firefox keep locking up on me? Message-ID: <Pine.OSX.4.64.0801151639380.498@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0801150106xce6cb02uaf101815cdb34af0@mail.gmail.com> References: <200801150639.m0F6dkPB050724@tantivy.tantivy.net> <14989d6e0801150106xce6cb02uaf101815cdb34af0@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey all, On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Christian Walther wrote: > Hello Bob, > > On 15/01/2008, Bob Vaughan <techie@tantivy.net> 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" >
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