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#1 2005-03-07 15:36:51

DJayC
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Registered: 2004-11-08
Posts: 17

Firefox crashing often

I did a pacman -Syu recently, and it seems like Firefox has been crashing an awful lot lately.  Anyone else running into these issues?

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#2 2005-03-07 15:48:24

tmadhavan
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From: Wales :D
Registered: 2004-03-26
Posts: 441

Re: Firefox crashing often

Yeh, I did have that problem..... but it seems to have gone away now?!

Now my fonts are messed and I'm getting oriental (i.e. characters) adverts in the forums big_smile

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#3 2005-03-07 16:12:30

Snowman
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
Posts: 5,212

Re: Firefox crashing often

tmadhavan wrote:

Now my fonts are messed and I'm getting oriental (i.e. characters) adverts in the forums big_smile

That's not a problem with your fonts.  It's just Chinese ads.  yikes  It's mentionned in the Off topics forum.

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#4 2005-03-07 16:16:22

phrakture
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From: behind you
Registered: 2003-10-29
Posts: 7,879
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Re: Firefox crashing often

my firefox crashes with some of the gnome libs (it may be gnome-vfs, not sure...) so I have to make sure I never have any of those on my system

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#5 2005-03-07 19:09:51

DJayC
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Registered: 2004-11-08
Posts: 17

Re: Firefox crashing often

I'm not really sure what does it.. it crashes I think with an out of memory error.. java apps will go at the same time too.  It's really weird, and it seems like it just started ever since I did an -Syu

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#6 2005-03-08 08:27:27

JGC
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Registered: 2003-12-03
Posts: 1,664

Re: Firefox crashing often

There's a bug in gtk-engines 2.6.1 in the smooth engine. When using a theme based on the smooth engine, firefox and all other mozilla apps and eclipse as well will crash when opening certain windows.

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#7 2005-03-08 08:32:54

z4ziggy
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From: Israel
Registered: 2004-03-29
Posts: 573
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Re: Firefox crashing often

i had same problems (firefox crashing) after installing the flashplugin, so i removed it for now. just a long shoot...

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#8 2005-03-08 16:34:14

phrakture
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From: behind you
Registered: 2003-10-29
Posts: 7,879
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Re: Firefox crashing often

ah good point - if you're using composite, the flash plugin has issues, unless you export some env variable that I can't recall... XARGB something...

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#9 2005-03-08 17:12:22

Dreameen
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From: Poland
Registered: 2004-09-06
Posts: 252

Re: Firefox crashing often

Put

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

to your /etc/profile and the problems with composite and the flash plugin should dissapear.

I have some other issues with ff connected with mplayer-plugin...erm...uhm..hmm..it crashes a lot;-)

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#10 2005-03-08 17:17:11

z4ziggy
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From: Israel
Registered: 2004-03-29
Posts: 573
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Re: Firefox crashing often

tnx, that fixed it. i dont use flash though - i only wanted to check some ad on a site... it was uninstalled again wink

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#11 2005-03-08 18:49:30

smith
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From: Crescent City, CA
Registered: 2005-02-19
Posts: 77

Re: Firefox crashing often

There is a Firefox extension which will replace all flash objects with a button that lets you control if you want to play it.  I think it's called Flashblock.  I recommend it if you ever want access to flash content but hate ads.


I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

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