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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