Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:14:08 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: Your Name <bg271828@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox Message-ID: <20040817081408.GA30369@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040817005907.GA21349@panix.com> References: <20040816195136.62744.qmail@web53404.mail.yahoo.com> <20040817005907.GA21349@panix.com>
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 08:59:07PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower 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. > > Sorry for the "me too" post, but since people are reporting > different results: I have two main computers, one running > 4.10 and one running 5.2-CURRENT, but with otherwise > similar setups. GNOME in both cases. > So I'm not the only one!? I'm using Firefox on 4.10 and 5.2 with KDE and found that it's quite OK on 5.2 but crashes often on 4.10, I think mostly on webpages with flash content. > The CURRENT machine is fine; I'm pretty sure I've never had a > crash in several months of operation. The 4.10 machine is Never? Wow. I can't say that here but I consider a weekly crash or so for a browser nowadays an excellent achievement ;-). > similar to the OP's report: I get relatively frequent but > unpredictable crashes on complex Web pages, with both > Mozilla and Firefox. Can't say anything for Mozilla. > It's annoying, and I'd love to know causes and solutions! Because it's so difficult to reproduce it's also hard to find the cause :-(. I plan to try linux-opera on 4.10. Should do flash and java... (being unable to get java working was what made me switch from Opera to Firefox couple of months ago) Karel.
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