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johnm76

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From: Bergen, Norway

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 15

Firefox random crashes

I use KDEmod 4.2.3 and Gnome 2.26 -- but Firefox crashes nonetheless. It seems to be at random. With Gmail and facebook open - it crashes. With simple 1.0-sites -- it crashes. Few fans open? Many fans open -- still crashes. The only addon I use at the moment is flashblock. There is no particular content that is troublesome; youtube works, other flash as well. Java is fine. If a site makes FF crash - I just reload and it works.

Now. Where to start? I have no clue ;(

Apart from that -- everything works. Oh well ... Intel-driver is troublesome - but that's a whole other story.

This happened - for Firefox (Gran Paradiso) around 3.0.5 and above.

Don-DiZzLe

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 233

Re: Firefox random crashes

Yes I am also experiencing this. While visiting some sites FF crashes and while visiting others it doesnt. Totally random crashes. I started FF from the terminal to see when it crashed again what kinda error message it would display. The message reads: "Illegal instruction"

johnm76

Member

From: Bergen, Norway

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 15

Re: Firefox random crashes

I have switched to legacy intel driver and have only experienced 2 random crashes of firefox since then. X is very stable too. Might these two be linked? Anyone else with thoughts on this?

syne

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From: Estonia

Registered: 2009-06-01

Posts: 22

Website

Re: Firefox random crashes

I'm having this problem daily. Mostly with Wikipedia:(
Since I'm not very computer-savvy I haven't tried anything radical. And it's not just FF, even my feed reader crashes on Wiki.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bernarcher

Forum Fellow

From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: Firefox random crashes

This might be an issue of intel-based graphics. There are several threads covering this.

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syne

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From: Estonia

Registered: 2009-06-01

Posts: 22

Website

Re: Firefox random crashes

This might be an issue of intel-based graphics. There are several threads covering this.

Intel-based graphics? I'm sorry, I have nvidia graphics card, or am I missing something? And these crashes happen only on the newer Wiki pages.

johnm76

Member

From: Bergen, Norway

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 15

Re: Firefox random crashes

My suspicion concerning it beeing an intel related problem is still strong; only a handful of crashes since I switched to legacy driver.

I'm not that savvy either, but I've noticed several problems with KDE4+nvidia - so does Firefox crash if you use anything else (Gnome, Openbox etc)?

syne

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From: Estonia

Registered: 2009-06-01

Posts: 22

Website

Re: Firefox random crashes

I'm using Openbox. And it crashes on ArchWiki as well. Oh joy:D

arunix

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From: /home/kurali

Registered: 2009-04-08

Posts: 93

Re: Firefox random crashes

hello ;-)
i am also suffering from FF Carsh problem.
but it starts from sunday morning(today) when i updated Arch ..

Last edited by arunix (2009-06-07 17:28:54)

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ProfessorTomoe

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From: Garland, TX

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 61

Re: Firefox random crashes

I got a random crash while reading this thread.  They seem to happen mostly while scrolling with my mouse wheel or while click-pulling the scroll bar on the right side of the screen.  I'm using the radeon driver.

syne

Member

From: Estonia

Registered: 2009-06-01

Posts: 22

Website

Re: Firefox random crashes

I seem to be having this problem http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=19387&p=3

jfca283

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 177

Re: Firefox random crashes

have you tried with the firefox 3.5.tar.bz2 version?
i'm running that and is faster and consume less resources
first of all do this

pacman -R firefox

next, download the firefox-3.5.tar.bz2
uncompress it on your home and as root do this

mv $HOME/firefox /opt/

then as root

ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

and now enjoy the new version...:cool:

Last edited by jfca283 (2009-07-02 03:40:09)