Re: Firefox is really unstable on FreeBSD
From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: 30 Dec 2004 13:24:42 GMT
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On 2004-12-30, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@start.no> wrote:
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> However, Firefox is really unstable; I can usually crash it within five
> minutes after staring it, just by browsing a few sites. There doesn't
> seem to be any pattern in what sites / features that will crash Firefox;
> these are the same sites that I'm happily using with Mozilla.
> Firefox core dumps when it crashes, with a signal 11.
I've seen a bunch of crashes with firefox on 5.3B7 and 5.3R, and so far
they've all been data-related. Most of the offending sites were using
flash and I'd installed a flash-plugin. I'd deinstalled it (no use for
it, really, 90+% of flash is just ads and there's no url-based flash
blocker yet), which made it that much more stable again. Not rock-solid,
but that's a different issue. As an aside, 1.0 did improve by not using
popups for the search function and install-this-plugin messages, but
in the latter case, just removing the nullplugin.so doesn't completely
disable the message anymore. Which is a pity, since I already know I do
NOT want to install any missing plugins.
As another aside, my 5.3R box recently started to experience
``hard-hangs'' (nice X picture on the monitors, but mouse and keyboard
frozen and no pings) occasionally, but I blame that on USB, I'd enabled
it for I now need it, where I'd disabled it in the BIOS before. It's for
one task only, so I'll probably try and figure another way.
> I have searched Google and the FreeBSD mailing list archives but can't
> seem to find any suggestions on what to try.
>
> Any hints?
Apart from taking out ``extra code'' like plugins (plugger?), try
searching the firefox bugzilla? :-)
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