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Date:      Wed, 02 Jun 2004 03:21:53 -0700
From:      Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
To:        Tim Robbins <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: firefox dies when anything typed in search or test fields
Message-ID:  <1086171713.37043.0.camel@server.mcneil.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040602095115.GA10734@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
References:  <1086167939.2511.9.camel@server.mcneil.com> <20040602095115.GA10734@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 02:51, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:18:59AM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> 
> > I'm not getting any core dump or other indication of an error, but when
> > I type a single character into the search text widget or if I go to
> > google.com and type a character in the search for that then firefox will
> > crash.
> 
> This has been frustrating me a lot lately. It seems to be a known problem
> with Firefox 0.8 on amd64 (not specific to FreeBSD):
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=146823&highlight=firefox+amd64
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244577 (???)
> 
> The Gentoo forum posts suggest that turning off "Saved Form Information"
> and "Saved Passwords" (in Privacy options) and "Use Find As You Type"
> (in Advanced / Accessibility options) may help, but it didn't improve
> anything for me. I'm going to try plain Mozilla instead.
> 
> 
> Tim

Mozilla will probably work.  Galeon doesn't have any issues for me so
far.

Sean




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