Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has
developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the
newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when
I click on a link to go to another part of the site or to download a
file, Firefox will just simply close. It's random for the most part, but
it happened quite often at the sourceforge.net website too. I'm not
having this problem with Seamonkey.
Jim
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01-18-2008, 10:16 AM
Niki Kovacs
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Jimmy Bradley a écrit :
Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has
developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the
newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when
I click on a link to go to another part of the site or to download a
file, Firefox will just simply close. It's random for the most part, but
it happened quite often at the sourceforge.net website too. I'm not
having this problem with Seamonkey.
I'll second this. Firefox seems to crash all the time now. I'll try to
perform a harmless action like log in to my webmail or post a message in
a forum, and woosh, it's gone. This is beginning to be a bit unnerving.
One question, by the way: how did you install Seamonkey? Did you install
the tarball from mozilla.org?
Niki
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01-18-2008, 10:41 AM
Scott Ehrlich
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On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote:
Jimmy Bradley a écrit :
Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has
developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the
newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when
I click on a link to go to another part of the site or to download a
file, Firefox will just simply close. It's random for the most part, but
it happened quite often at the sourceforge.net website too. I'm not
having this problem with Seamonkey.
I'll second this. Firefox seems to crash all the time now. I'll try to
perform a harmless action like log in to my webmail or post a message in a
forum, and woosh, it's gone. This is beginning to be a bit unnerving.
One question, by the way: how did you install Seamonkey? Did you install the
tarball from mozilla.org?
Firefox is a very popular cross-platform browser.
What are people's thoughts of Opera, which is in the same category?
Scott
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01-18-2008, 12:55 PM
Dan
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I installed Firefox 2.0.0.x in an effort to stop this problem, but it
still happens just not as frequently. I have heard it doesn't happen
in Firefox 3, along with a few other annoying traits that have
developed in the Firefox line. I have tried Opera on the machine that
Firefox was crashing on and it seemed to help at first but then it got
progressively slower to the point of being unusable. There is a
discussion in this list recently of the same type issues with
Seamonkey.
On Jan 18, 2008 6:41 AM, Scott Ehrlich <scott@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>
> > Jimmy Bradley a écrit :
> >> Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has
> >> developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the
> >> newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when
> >> I click on a link to go to another part of the site or to download a
> >> file, Firefox will just simply close. It's random for the most part, but
> >> it happened quite often at the sourceforge.net website too. I'm not
> >> having this problem with Seamonkey.
> >
> > I'll second this. Firefox seems to crash all the time now. I'll try to
> > perform a harmless action like log in to my webmail or post a message in a
> > forum, and woosh, it's gone. This is beginning to be a bit unnerving.
> >
> > One question, by the way: how did you install Seamonkey? Did you install the
> > tarball from mozilla.org?
>
> Firefox is a very popular cross-platform browser.
>
> What are people's thoughts of Opera, which is in the same category?
>
> Scott
>
>
> >
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01-18-2008, 01:26 PM
Max Hetrick
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Dan wrote:
> I installed Firefox 2.0.0.x in an effort to stop this problem, but it
> still happens just not as frequently. I have heard it doesn't happen
> in Firefox 3, along with a few other annoying traits that have
> developed in the Firefox line. I have tried Opera on the machine that
> Firefox was crashing on and it seemed to help at first but then it got
> progressively slower to the point of being unusable. There is a
> discussion in this list recently of the same type issues with
> Seamonkey.
I was having this problem, which was brought up in this thread here:
I installed Firefox 2.0.0.x in an effort to stop this problem, but it
still happens just not as frequently. I have heard it doesn't happen
in Firefox 3, along with a few other annoying traits that have
developed in the Firefox line. I have tried Opera on the machine that
Firefox was crashing on and it seemed to help at first but then it got
progressively slower to the point of being unusable. There is a
discussion in this list recently of the same type issues with
Seamonkey.
I too noticed this problem. Went right to Firefox 3 and the problem
miraculously disappeared.
Mark
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01-18-2008, 06:10 PM
MHR
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On Jan 18, 2008 6:26 AM, Max Hetrick <maxhetrick@verizon.net> wrote:
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>
> Dan wrote:
> > I installed Firefox 2.0.0.x in an effort to stop this problem, but it
> > still happens just not as frequently. *I have heard it doesn't happen
> > in Firefox 3, along with a few other annoying traits that have
> > developed in the Firefox line. *I have tried Opera on the machine that
> > Firefox was crashing on and it seemed to help at first but then it got
> > progressively slower to the point of being unusable. *There is a
> > discussion in this list recently of the same type issues with
> > Seamonkey.
>
>
> I was having this problem, which was brought up in this thread here:
>
> <
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>
> I, same as you, tried to use 2.0.0.x and was having the same things
> happen, even after cleaning my profile and creating a new one.
>
> I loaded Firefox 3 beta 2 and it hasn't crashed once on me. Perhaps try
> that one until someone can get to the bug.
>
> Regards,
> Max
>
I had a similar problem in SeaMonkey a while back, reported it as a bug, got the nightly build of SeaMonkey from a week or so ago (I think I need a new one), and it performed just fine for a while.* Now it has the same problem again, so don't be too quick to absolve Firefox - other users have noticed this, too.
I have sent in the crash dumps from this for analysis, so I suspect (hope?) that the mozilla gurus are on their way to a fix.
I'll post when this is resolved.
mhr
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01-18-2008, 06:57 PM
Florin Andrei
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Jimmy Bradley wrote:
Just out of curiosity, has anyone noticed a problem that has
developed with firefox? This started on both of my machines after the
newest updates. I'll be at a website, even the mozilla website, and when
I click on a link to go to another part of the site or to download a
file, Firefox will just simply close. It's random for the most part, but
it happened quite often at the sourceforge.net website too. I'm not
having this problem with Seamonkey.
I've heard a lot of complaints from Firefox/CentOS users. I never used
CentOS as a desktop OS, so I can't confirm those issues from my own
experience.
However, I use Fedora, Ubuntu and (very rarely) Windows XP as desktop
OS, usually with the latest Firefox version and a set of plugins (Java,
Flash, multimedia, Adobe) and extensions (SlimSearch [disclaimer: I'm
the author], Forecastfox, Google Browser Sync, It's All Text,
StumbleUpon, maybe others too) and the only issue I see is with 2.0.0.x
slowly leaking memory. But there are no crashes.
It looks like the particular Firefox version distributed with CentOS /
Red Hat has some serious issues.
My suggestion is to try a newer version. If you put it in /opt/firefox
and add the bin/ subdirectory (or wherever the firefox binary is) to the
front end of the $PATH variable, it will Simply Work with minimal
changes. 2.0.0.x works fine for me on the abovementioned OS's. I've
tried briefly 3.0beta on Ubuntu and Fedora and it seemed to work fine
too, but I don't have much experience with it.
Bottom line: upgrade Firefox.
Maybe this should be put in the FAQ.
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01-19-2008, 02:22 AM
Nancy Rudins
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I wondered why I wasn't having any problems, so I checked my
version of Firefox and I'm still using 1.5. I'll upgrade to
Firefox 3 and just jump over the Firefox 2.0.0 version.
Kind regards,
Nancy
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 13:30 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Dan wrote:
> > I installed Firefox 2.0.0.x in an effort to stop this problem, but it
> > still happens just not as frequently. I have heard it doesn't happen
> > in Firefox 3, along with a few other annoying traits that have
> > developed in the Firefox line. I have tried Opera on the machine that
> > Firefox was crashing on and it seemed to help at first but then it got
> > progressively slower to the point of being unusable. There is a
> > discussion in this list recently of the same type issues with
> > Seamonkey.
>
> I too noticed this problem. Went right to Firefox 3 and the problem
> miraculously disappeared.
>
> Mark
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01-19-2008, 04:03 AM
J
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Nancy Rudins wrote:
I wondered why I wasn't having any problems, so I checked my
version of Firefox and I'm still using 1.5. I'll upgrade to
Firefox 3 and just jump over the Firefox 2.0.0 version.
Kind regards,
Nancy
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 13:30 -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
Dan wrote:
I installed Firefox 2.0.0.x in an effort to stop this problem, but it
still happens just not as frequently. I have heard it doesn't happen
in Firefox 3, along with a few other annoying traits that have
developed in the Firefox line. I have tried Opera on the machine that
Firefox was crashing on and it seemed to help at first but then it got
progressively slower to the point of being unusable. There is a
discussion in this list recently of the same type issues with
Seamonkey.
I too noticed this problem. Went right to Firefox 3 and the problem
miraculously disappeared.
Mark
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Stupid question... How does one upgrade to ff 3? Would that require
installing via rpm off of ff's site?
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