Re: Firefox crashing

Patrick Mc Cabe wrote:

> Hello, This is my first subscription to a news group so, please, bear with
> me. I have recently upgraded to 10.3 and  my firefox crashes when I have
> several tabs open. Actually it freezes and I need to Force Quit it each
> time, are there any known issues ? I will look else where and post my result
> if I get any


Actually, I submitted a bugzilla report on what is probably this behavior
a week or so ago.  I've received a few suggestions of things to try. None
has fixed the problem.  This has included entirely wiping out the entire
"Phoenix" directory tree (after saving my bookmarks.html file) and letting
firefox start from scratch.

The problem affects the last "firebird" browser, too, and has even spread
to mozilla in a few cases.  This suggests to me that the problem is lower
than all of these, perhaps in whatever library routines are used to download
files.

It's a fairly serious problem.  If it's the same problem as mine, what you
see is that you can still scroll around in open pages, switch between tabs
or windows, etc., but hyperlinks and menus simply don't work any more. The
download that triggered it all is in its spinning-icon wait state, and never
comes out of it.

The pages that trigger it are only reproducible for a short time.  But I've
found that slashdot is a good source of demo failures.  So now I'm reading
slashdot with Safari. ;-)