Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:36:49 -0700 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox Message-ID: <200408161436.49165.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200408161430.02630.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <20040816195136.62744.qmail@web53404.mail.yahoo.com> <20040816203054.GK85541@omniresources.com> <200408161430.02630.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On Monday 16 August 2004 02:30 pm, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2004 01:31 pm, doug@polands.org wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Your Name wrote: > > > In the last few weeks ive started getting a number of crashes using > > > either Mozilla or Firefox. im using the newest version of each from > > > Ports, on FreeBSD 4.9. > > > > And on 5.2.1-RELEASE and 5.2-CURRENT > > > > > It typically happens when i visit a complicated website with lots of > > > dynamically-generated content, like the N.Y. Times or eBay. But its > > > not regular; i can restart the browser and go back to the same page > > > and it could then just work. > > > > Two sites that failed consistently for me were http://www.pga.com and > > http://www.statefarm.com > > > > The browser versions are > > > > Mozilla 1.7.2 > > Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3 > > > > Both versions were built from ports the day after the port was > > committed. All other ports are up-to-date. > > I don't know if this would be helpful, but I'm testing both sites at the > same time (tabbed) with Mozilla and Firefox, and I'm not having problems - > am clicking through many links with both browsers fetching on both tabs > (and Mozilla also has other tabs open). I'm running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and > have the same versions of Mozilla and Firefox as you do, and all my ports > are also up-to-date. Both browsers have Flash, Java and scripting enabled. > If it means anything, I'm also running X.org and Xfce4. However, the OP it > was an intermittent problem (is it with you as well?), so not sure if I'm > just getting lucky, as I haven't ever surfed either of those sites before. I should probably also mention that neither browser has ever crashed on me on FreeBSD, and I use both extensively. I've only been a FreeBSD user for a few months, but I've never had issues with either browser crashing whatsoever. I'm also running on a 2GHz Athlon and 512MB RAM. Mozilla tends to be a memory hog - maybe it's an issue with memory and swapping? - jt
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