Firefox crashing often

DJayC · 2005-03-07 15:36:51

I did a pacman -Syu recently, and it seems like Firefox has been crashing an awful lot lately. Anyone else running into these issues?

tmadhavan · 2005-03-07 15:48:24

Yeh, I did have that problem..... but it seems to have gone away now?!

Now my fonts are messed and I'm getting oriental (i.e. characters) adverts in the forums

Snowman · 2005-03-07 16:12:30

tmadhavan wrote:

Now my fonts are messed and I'm getting oriental (i.e. characters) adverts in the forums

That's not a problem with your fonts. It's just Chinese ads. It's mentionned in the Off topics forum.

phrakture · 2005-03-07 16:16:22

my firefox crashes with some of the gnome libs (it may be gnome-vfs, not sure...) so I have to make sure I never have any of those on my system

DJayC · 2005-03-07 19:09:51

I'm not really sure what does it.. it crashes I think with an out of memory error.. java apps will go at the same time too. It's really weird, and it seems like it just started ever since I did an -Syu

JGC · 2005-03-08 08:27:27

There's a bug in gtk-engines 2.6.1 in the smooth engine. When using a theme based on the smooth engine, firefox and all other mozilla apps and eclipse as well will crash when opening certain windows.

z4ziggy · 2005-03-08 08:32:54

i had same problems (firefox crashing) after installing the flashplugin, so i removed it for now. just a long shoot...

phrakture · 2005-03-08 16:34:14

ah good point - if you're using composite, the flash plugin has issues, unless you export some env variable that I can't recall... XARGB something...

Dreameen · 2005-03-08 17:12:22

Put

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

to your /etc/profile and the problems with composite and the flash plugin should dissapear.

I have some other issues with ff connected with mplayer-plugin...erm...uhm..hmm..it crashes a lot;-)

z4ziggy · 2005-03-08 17:17:11

tnx, that fixed it. i dont use flash though - i only wanted to check some ad on a site... it was uninstalled again

smith · 2005-03-08 18:49:30

There is a Firefox extension which will replace all flash objects with a button that lets you control if you want to play it. I think it's called Flashblock. I recommend it if you ever want access to flash content but hate ads.

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Firefox crashing often

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