Crash crash crash, FireFox unhappy

[taharka]

Andy Pieters wrote:

>Hi All
>
>I am having a problem with FireFox, latest stable release (not deerpark alpha)
>
>
>It almost almost crashes whenever I close a window, be it a popup or a 
>messagebox.  Reinstalling the rpm from scratch didn't solve the problem as 
>does disabeling all the extensions.
>
>I can't seem to generate a backtrace either.  Here is what I do: open my 
>company's lan website.  Click a button that pop's up a new window; close that 
>window, and 80% of the time, FireFox crashes.  Or, a message alert is shown 
>(javascript generated) and when I press the ok, or cancel button, firefox 
>crashes 80 to 90% of the time.
>
>This is realy getting on my nerves because I want, need, and am addicted to 
>FireFox, and am even dependant of it to do my work!
>
>The windows variant seems to be more stable.
>
>On a side note, when using konqueror, whenever I press a button that popups a 
>window, it crashes too.
>
>Both program's sigsev.
>
>So if anyone out there can share some of their enormous knowledge (no pun 
>intented), then please do so.
>
>
>Your humble servant
>
>
>Andy
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>
>  
>
Have you tried running firefox in safe mode from the command line?
#firefox -safe-mode

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.