[SOLVED] Firefox + Gnome = Me wanting to shoot myself in the face.

crisnoh · 2009-09-11 22:25:18

I just switched to Gnome and found that Firefox crashes immediately after being launched while in Gnome. I'm not experiencing the problem in any other X environment. I've tried launching from the command line, but there's no output. Is anyone else experiencing anything similar? Is there a solution?

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whoops · 2009-09-11 22:28:21

Try changing your metacity/gtk theme?

crisnoh · 2009-09-11 22:58:09

Already tried. Also tried with Compiz/Emerald, Metacity, and Openbox as window managers within Gnome. Same problem.

whoops · 2009-09-11 23:27:22

Wait, what's "within Gnome"? Is there much left of it, once you change the WM?

Maybe you're getting no output because firefox is till running (that browser loves to freeze, disappear & hide instead of crashing ) - did you try killing it until it's gone before starting from CL? Or start from CL right after reboot when everything else is still "clean"?

(Also: In case you opened another x instance to try around: I think firefox can only run on one screen at a time.)

crisnoh · 2009-09-11 23:40:05

Wait, what's "within Gnome"? Is there much left of it, once you change the WM?

By this I mean using a window manager other than Metacity along with the Gnome desktop environment. This leaves the desktop manager, panels, settings daemons, etc. of Gnome running as they normally would.

Maybe you're getting no output because firefox is till running (that browser loves to freeze, disappear & hide instead of crashing ) - did you try killing it until it's gone before starting from CL? Or start from CL right after reboot when everything else is still "clean"?

Yes, I've tried this. Doing a 'killall firefox' outputs a "no processes found."

(Also: In case you opened another x instance to try around: I think firefox can only run on one screen at a time.)

Nope. Just the one instance of X.

ninjaprawn · 2009-09-11 23:50:18

try midori web browser!!
pacman -S midori

whoops · 2009-09-12 00:04:18

'killall firefox' outputs a "no processes found."

What about "firefox-bin"? (I'm not sure what the "firefox" without -bin process does, but killing it doesn't stop me from writing this post in firefox - I just tried out of curiosity).

If you don't get it running and don't want to use another browser, you can try recompiling it or using a firefox build from AUR, too. I'd recommend firefox-pgo or if you're 64bit firefox-pgo-beta, but in case those don't compile without any trouble, there are easier ones too.

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Peasantoid · 2009-09-12 00:08:42

ninjaprawn wrote:

try midori web browser!!
pacman -S midori

Ehh, I don't think Firefox is the problem here. (Read: GNOME is made of poo.)

Army · 2009-09-12 01:36:13

Do you have udev installed? I'm not quite sure, but after a fresh install, where I missed installing udev, firefox crashed after few seonds. Now with udev installed it's quite stable

Rasi · 2009-09-12 02:28:07

you are not using the global menu bar by any chance? firefox will crash as soon as it is active

crisnoh · 2009-09-12 17:28:56

Rasi wrote:

you are not using the global menu bar by any chance? firefox will crash as soon as it is active

Bingo. Funny, I've used the global menu bar in the past without problems.

I don't suppose there is any way to tell the two to ignore one another?

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gummibaerchen · 2009-09-13 18:07:31

crisnoh wrote:

Rasi wrote:
you are not using the global menu bar by any chance? firefox will crash as soon as it is active
Bingo. Funny, I've used the global menu bar in the past without problems.
I don't suppose there is any way to tell the two to ignore one another?

actually, there is:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 24#p600724

Works great for me, as I don't have a menubar in FF anyway, but use it Chromium-style (if at all these days).

arunix · 2009-09-14 03:08:14

i was facing the same problem with wmii+firefox
you should try to upate or install firefox 3.5.3.1

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