Firefox crashes consistently.

kyotocafe · 2009-08-29 10:32:02

Actually, my other issue that I mentioned before, about saving pictures and web pages not showing the save dialog, was also related to sqlite, since once I recreated the .sqlite files on my firefox profile folder after downgrading to 3.6.16, this save issue was also resolved.

cb474 · 2009-08-29 10:55:45

How did you recreate the files? Did this cause you to lose all related settings?

I'm having what seems like another possibly related issue, in which when I start to download a file and hit the save button in the save-as dialogue, Firefox crashes sometimes.

stabele · 2009-08-29 12:12:35

Thanks for solution kyotocafe, sqlite3-3.6.16-1 is the magic way.

kyotocafe · 2009-08-29 22:41:12

cb474 wrote:

How did you recreate the files? Did this cause you to lose all related settings?
I'm having what seems like another possibly related issue, in which when I start to download a file and hit the save button in the save-as dialogue, Firefox crashes sometimes.

I removed the *.sqlite* files on my firefox profile folder, thus, once I restarted firefox, the files were recreated automatically.
No settings were lost.

I did not experience the issue you mentioned with clicking save on the save-as dialog. Firefox is working fine for me so far.

cb474 · 2009-08-30 02:41:26

Thanks. That was what I assumed, but I wanted to double check there wasn't some more "proper" way.

I'm trying this to see if it solves the save-as crash problem. I do notice that I lose my cookies doing this (no big deal, just have to login to a few sites again). I also lose some of the search history that shows up in the awesome bar (though not the history in the history sidebar) and the icons that go with web site names in the bookmarks menu, history sidebar, and awesome bar. These latter two things seem to be associated with the places.sqlite file.

It also, from the file names, looks like other things like download history and form fill-in history would be lost.

But my main preferences are not effected.

[Edit: Also lost my cookie exceptions, due to permissions.sqlite file]

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kyotocafe · 2009-08-30 08:43:04

What about your issue with the save as dialog? Has it been resolved or is it still crashing from time to time?

cb474 · 2009-09-03 06:30:37

kyotocafe wrote:

What about your issue with the save as dialog? Has it been resolved or is it still crashing from time to time?

Thanks for asking. It still happens sometimes.

cb474 · 2009-09-03 06:32:02

So now I'm having something come up where pacman can't upgrade the package "redland" because it depends on sqlite3 3.6.17 (which of course I held back, since it was causing the bookmark crash problem with firefox). Should I be concerned? I looked up redland but it's purpose was over my head.

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Sophotect · 2009-09-03 16:59:26

Use this extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9452, create some profiles, leave the default profile empty (safe mode), try compatibility of wanted extensions with others in some test profile, migrate into working profile if successful. As to the bookmarkproblem, i can confirm that on i686. Didn't notice that because i do all my bookmarking with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8186.
Really, this profilemanagerthing should be built in, since it isn't its a mandatory extension, actually the first of all the rest. Another nice feature is the ability to load a webpage (which for example isnt't working because of a too paranoid setup) with a rightclick into another profile. Where it can flashtrashy actionscript all the way it wants to

thisoldman · 2009-09-03 22:33:34

The inability to use the save dialog may have a solution at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_sav … load_files.

Here's a good starting point for solving quite a few firefox problems: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Issues_%28Firefox%29

cb474 · 2009-09-04 01:11:29

Thanks for the suggestions on the save dialog crash problem.

Any thoughts on the issue with redland not being able to upgrade, since I'm keeping sqlite3 at 3.6.16? Should I care? Like I said, I looked at the web page for redland and really don't understand what it does or if it's important to my system functionality.

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thisoldman · 2009-09-04 09:28:20

Yeah, my eyes glazed over when I looked at the compilation instructions of redland. It gives me a better appreciation for what a chore it is for the devs to keep things up to date and not break things. They really deserve our thanks.

My understanding of redland and raptor comes from the reply hollunder gave to my comment when I had to downgrade both in order to run traverso, from the AUR. At the moment, I'm staying with redland-1.0.8-3 and raptor-1.4.18-1.

toad · 2009-09-04 09:53:39

Hm, I have never downgraded before, but pacman tells me that redland requires sqlite 3.6.17 and I require audacity and openoffice which require redland What to do next?

kyotocafe · 2009-09-04 10:10:48

toad wrote:

Hm, I have never downgraded before, but pacman tells me that redland requires sqlite 3.6.17 and I require audacity and openoffice which require redland What to do next?

You can always force the upgrade/installation of redland to avoid dependencies by adding -d, such as pacman -Sd redland, though it is not advised. You can always test it first and check how it goes.

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thisoldman · 2009-09-04 10:15:41

I'm using sqlite 3.6.17-1. Audacity and Openoffice continue to work for me with redland-1.0.8-3 and raptor-1.4.18-1.

This really belongs in a new thread.

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bernarcher · 2009-09-06 20:12:10

As for the bookmarks problem I succeeded using "Organize Bookmarks..." and adding a new bookmark manually.
Thus sqlite3 3.6.17-1 at least appears to work with firefox.
Downgrading is no option for me, too.

toad · 2009-09-06 20:29:44

mine appears to have fixed itself with the latest update - I was just reading about downgrading

edit:
64 bit, core, extra & community + AUR

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thisoldman · 2009-09-06 20:32:05

Rasqal was added to the redlands dependencies. I was able to do the redlands/raptor/rasqal updates and nothing new has broken.

cb474 · 2009-09-07 01:55:52

toad wrote:

mine appears to have fixed itself with the latest update - I was just reading about downgrading
edit:
64 bit, core, extra & community + AUR

The last update to which package? Thanks.

[Edit: now go-openoffice, nss, and redland won't upgrade without sqlite3 3.6.17. It's starting to make the sqlite3 downgrade solution to fix firefox seem less and less viable.]

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toad · 2009-09-07 08:03:59

cb474, I have no idea. All I can tell you is that yesterday I was able to add a bookmark without any problems - an update between Friday and Sunday then. Here is a list of possible candidates...

bernarcher · 2009-09-07 08:10:21

toad wrote:

mine appears to have fixed itself with the latest update - I was just reading about downgrading
edit:
64 bit, core, extra & community + AUR

Nope! Still breaking here. Last update just an hour ago.

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thisoldman · 2009-09-07 10:41:53

Have you folks tried the solution under the heading "Corrupt bookmarks file" at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks_not_saved?

xelados · 2009-09-09 07:22:44

thisoldman: The fix you linked to was not successful in fixing the problem for me.

shining · 2009-09-09 09:05:21

An easy solution for the sqlite/firefox problem is just to rebuild firefox without linking to system sqlite, or just use mozilla firefox binaries which are already built that way (available on AUR).

cb474 · 2009-09-09 21:31:02

shining wrote:

An easy solution for the sqlite/firefox problem is just to rebuild firefox without linking to system sqlite, or just use mozilla firefox binaries which are already built that way (available on AUR).

Could you explain more how to do that? It's a little beyond me. Thanks.

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