Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 06:06:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox 1.0.6 reliably dumps core when opening http://www.thenation.com/ Message-ID: <20050731130655.39067.qmail@web86906.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1122756315.24297.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 13:30 -0700, Adam Nealis wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here's some version information: > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050730 Firefox/1.0.6 > > > > uname -a > > FreeBSD adam 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Sat Jul 2 15:14:13 BST 2005 > > root@adam:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > > ls -l www/firefox/Makefile > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9944 Jul 30 05:36 www/firefox/Makefile > > > > The problem occurs while running firefox. > > > > I can always reproduce the problem merely by opening > > > > http://www.thenation.com/ > > > > This afternoon I (think) I rebuilt firefox with debugging enabled, if that helps. > > > > Just tell me what to do next ... > > It works for me, but I noticed there's Flash on this site. Try > disabling your Flash plugin, and see if that helps. Most browser > crashes have nothing to do with the browser. That worked! Thanks very much. I used portupgrade, which got rid of flashplugin-firefox-0.4.12_1 and installed flashplugin-mozilla-0.4.13 instead. about:plugins still thinks it's supposed to use flashplugin-firefox-0.4.12_1, but my problem site now doesn't crash firefox and I appear to be able to view SWFs, etc. now. Adam. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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