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azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Firefox freezes ALOT

Firefox freezes up on me alot. Ive had this problem before then it was fine, then a few days ago when Gnome 2.18 came out and I updated it started again. It froze on me at least 15 times yesterday, and already 5 or 6 times today. Any suggestions or thoughts on what the problem might be?

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hightower

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Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 182

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

hi,

start firefox in a terminal emulator (e.g. xterm, aterm and others) and post the output, especially the last lines to http://pastebin.archlinux.org/ and link your entry in this thread.

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test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

according to firefox --help you can also use -safe-mode to "Disables extensions and themes for this session." which might be the culprit.

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azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 27042 Killed                  "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

thats the output I get when I run out of a terminal when it crashes I get that message

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qlus

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From: Tychy, Poland

Registered: 2006-06-15

Posts: 74

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

Run
firefox -profilemanager
Check if the new, clean profile will also make freezes.

skymt

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 443

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 27042 Killed                  "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

thats the output I get when I run out of a terminal when it crashes I get that message

That error message is basically meaningless. All it says is "the program quit on me." Are there any interesting messages before that?

azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

nope nothing before that

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darkNiGHTS

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Registered: 2007-03-25

Posts: 12

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

Mine was doing that too, I think it's the memory leak, because when I changed this value in about:config to 16384:

browser.cache.memory.capacity

Firefox has been a lot faster and doesn't freeze anymore.

azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

Im not seeing th value:

browser.cache.memory.capacity...there is browser.cache.disk.capacity though Im going to assume thats what I want its currently at 50000...but its the only one under browser.cache with a numerical value

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azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

Well Ive pretty much determined flash plugin is whats making Firefox freeze all the time. Ive tried other browsers...Epiphany and Opera...no differance. So I decided to go ahead and remove the flash plugin and try for a while without. When flash was gone pages loaded uber fast and it was extrememly stable no freezing nothing. However flash is need for sites such as youtube and myspace so I really want to have the plugin. We tried putting on swfdec and swfdec mozilla but swfdec mozilla wouldnt build...I must be missing a configure option for the build or something. Any suggestions on maybe making it run smoother with flash? Or does anyone know what I need to do to get swfdec-mozilla to build?

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n8schicht

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From: Südbaden

Registered: 2006-12-27

Posts: 138

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Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 27042 Killed                  "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

thats the output I get when I run out of a terminal when it crashes I get that message

Well well, looks familiar to me, unfortunately... I had the same thing going on since I had to reinstall Arch yesterday (due to a HD crash), and since then I get these kind of errors when I'm visiting certain webpages (always the same ones). If I start firefox from a console, it tells me (in german) about a "Speicherzugriffsfehler", i.e. a memory allocation failure. Uninstalling FF, deleting all its remaining directories and reinstalling didn't fix this. I then downloaded FF from the mozilla page, and extracted it to a folder. No errors so far 
Really strange...

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darkNiGHTS

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Registered: 2007-03-25

Posts: 12

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

Im not seeing th value:

browser.cache.memory.capacity...there is browser.cache.disk.capacity though Im going to assume thats what I want its currently at 50000...but its the only one under browser.cache with a numerical value

Nope that's not the value, that won't do anything.  That's the exact name of the value that's on my browser that fixed it.

twold

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 9

Re: Firefox freezes ALOT

Hi

We tried putting on swfdec and swfdec mozilla but swfdec mozilla wouldnt build...I must be missing a configure option for the build or something.

There is one configure check missing. I have already sent mail to swfdec guys and asked them to fix it. Meanwhile I used a little hack to make it compile.

Unfortunately not all videos on youtube work but some already do.  Try it out and see for yourself.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … hans=&SeB=