Firefox 3.0.1 crashes ALL THE TIME on both my machines.

krigun · 2008-09-26 12:17:28

Is it just on my two machines running the latest Arch that Firefox/Gran Paradiso 3.0.1 on KDE 4.X crashes absolutely all the time, or are others experiencing this aswell. I try to use other browsers but sometimes I forget and run that freakin' corrupted Firefox binary and ~10(or 20 or 30) minutes into a golden web surfing session it just says *poof*. Of course, the immediate suspect is proprietary code (flashplugin). No idea. After I installed the flash block plugin things are better, but still quite horrible.

This is all I get:

[gunnar@archlinux cm]$ firefox
**
Gtk:ERROR:gtkplug.c:182:gtk_plug_set_is_child: assertion failed: (!GTK_WIDGET (plug)->parent)
Aborted

which leads to:

pacman -R firefox

thunderogg · 2008-09-26 14:09:30

Mine crashes too. I tried the firefox branded binaries from the AUR, but they also crash. I gave up. Now I'm using Epiphany. It's faster and has not crashed so far.

Last edited by thunderogg (2008-09-26 14:10:32)

krigun · 2008-09-26 16:04:59

thunderogg wrote:

Mine crashes too. I tried the firefox branded binaries from the AUR, but they also crash. I gave up. Now I'm using Epiphany. It's faster and has not crashed so far.

Glad/Sad to hear its not only my configuration. Is the flash plugin stable and reasonably fast in Epiphany? I mean, do sites with lots of flash work fine, or are they horribly slow? For instance, this norwegian news site is very slow on FF without flashblock http://www.vg.no/.

thunderogg · 2008-09-26 16:12:05

Well, Epiphany is faster than Firefox, and it opened the sire without problems and fast. Why don you try it?

fwojciec · 2008-09-26 16:24:46

Looks like a gtk theme related problem. Try changing the theme to something generic like clearlooks and see if you can reproduce it.

thunderogg · 2008-09-26 16:27:14

I was running Nodoka-agua. Will test

thunderogg · 2008-09-26 16:30:41

Hm, it didn crash yet!

thunderogg · 2008-09-26 16:33:29

Now, it did. I'll stick with Epiphany for now.

fwojciec · 2008-09-26 16:45:23

thunderogg: my suggestion was based on the error message in krigun's first post, so I'm not sure if it's applicable to whatever crashes ff on your computer. If you post the error message you get when ff crashes then it might be able to troubleshoot this... Firefox shouldn't crash, I haven't had it crash a single time since updating to 3.0 -- it's remarkably stable, in fact...

krigun · 2008-09-26 16:57:55

fwojciec wrote:

Looks like a gtk theme related problem. Try changing the theme to something generic like clearlooks and see if you can reproduce it.

Do you mean the firefox theme? Im running KDE 4, and using the gtk-chtheme. I'm not sure how I can disable the gtk-chtheme. Anyway, I removed the ~/.mozilla folder, and see if that does any good.

Thanks!

enkidu · 2008-09-26 19:11:08

give a try to icecat from gnu.org ( firefox fork )
I was a netscape/firefox addict for years , became an opera "the fastest browser propaganda" convinced and discovered that that the firefox engine rebranded in icecat is, for now ?, the only fast , light and and usefull browser.

thunderogg · 2008-09-26 19:29:29

I also removed ~/.mozilla and it seems to solve the problem

krigun · 2008-09-27 17:18:31

thunderogg wrote:

I also removed ~/.mozilla and it seems to solve the problem

Yeah, actually it seems to be more stable here aswell. But.. knock on wood

Dieter@be · 2008-09-28 08:46:16

Note that if you want to clear your ~/.mozilla but still keep some important things of your profile (bookmarks etc), you can copy them one by one from the 'bad' profile into the new one, testing each step. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ … _-_Firefox

thunderogg · 2008-09-28 09:31:36

Dieter@be wrote:

Note that if you want to clear your ~/.mozilla but still keep some important things of your profile (bookmarks etc), you can copy them one by one from the 'bad' profile into the new one, testing each step. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_ … _-_Firefox

Thanks for the link. I just made a bookmark backup then restored it and it worked fine.

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#1 2008-09-26 12:17:28

Firefox 3.0.1 crashes ALL THE TIME on both my machines.

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