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Firefox crashes too often.
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| Jean-David Beyer 2005-03-28, 5:51 pm |
| I am running
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317
Firefox/1.0.2
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES, and it crashes many times a day. I
switched to Firefox (and Thunderbird that does not crash) because
Mozilla that comes with RHEL3 stopped working on my stock broker's web
site and I cannot view or trade my account with it. Also, my sister runs
Firefox and Thunderbird on her Windows XP machine because she does not
like MS Outlook Express, and it works well for her.
Anyhow, is this a known problem with FireFox? Is there something I can
do? The crashing produces no symptoms, and there is nothing in
/var/log/messages
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^^-^^ 09:35:00 up 2 days, 23:51, 3 users, load average: 4.25, 4.26, 4.25
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| Lenard 2005-03-28, 5:51 pm |
| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> I am running
>
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317
> Firefox/1.0.2
>
> on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES, and it crashes many times a day. I
> switched to Firefox (and Thunderbird that does not crash) because
> Mozilla that comes with RHEL3 stopped working on my stock broker's web
> site and I cannot view or trade my account with it. Also, my sister
> runs Firefox and Thunderbird on her Windows XP machine because she
> does not like MS Outlook Express, and it works well for her.
>
> Anyhow, is this a known problem with FireFox? Is there something I can
> do? The crashing produces no symptoms, and there is nothing in
> /var/log/messages
>
A few buzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/index.cgi) reports
mostly concerning older version of firefox and java. Check which
version of Java you have installed;
$ Java -version
java version "1.5.0_01"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_01-b08)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_01-b08, mixed mode, sharing)
A link to mozilla's Java plugin support page (has a link to Sun's page
to maybe upgrade java); http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java
If you have the latest Java already installed, it is also possible that
the web page(s) is poorly written against the standards you can try
using; http://www.chrispederick.com/work/f...ragentswitcher/
and 'switch' firefox and/or mozilla to IE6 (XP) and see if that helps
any.
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Jean-David Beyer 2005-03-28, 5:51 pm |
| Lenard wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
>
>
> A few buzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/index.cgi)
> reports mostly concerning older version of firefox and java. Check
> which version of Java you have installed;
>
> $ Java -version Java version "1.5.0_01" Java(TM) 2 Runtime
> Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_01-b08) Java HotSpot(TM)
> Client VM (build 1.5.0_01-b08, mixed mode, sharing)
>
> A link to mozilla's Java plugin support page (has a link to Sun's
> page to maybe upgrade java);
> http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java
>
> If you have the latest Java already installed, it is also possible
> that the web page(s) is poorly written against the standards you can
> try using;
> http://www.chrispederick.com/work/f...ragentswitcher/ and
> 'switch' firefox and/or mozilla to IE6 (XP) and see if that helps
> any.
>
What I use for FireFox is:
$ ./java -version
java version "1.5.0_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_02-b09)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_02-b09, mixed mode)
that I suppose is slightly more up-to-date than yours.
I us something else for everything else:
IBMJava2-SDK-1.4.1-2.0
IBMJava2-JRE-1.4.1-2.0
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 17:35:00 up 3 days, 7:51, 4 users, load average: 5.29, 5.12, 4.87
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| Jean-David Beyer 2005-03-29, 7:47 am |
| Lenard wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
>
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> A few buzilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/index.cgi) reports
> mostly concerning older version of firefox and java. Check which
> version of Java you have installed;
>
> $ Java -version
> Java version "1.5.0_01"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_01-b08)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_01-b08, mixed mode, sharing)
>
> A link to mozilla's Java plugin support page (has a link to Sun's page
> to maybe upgrade java); http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java
I looked at BugZilla bug #143637 and he says
http://www.ibsf.org/snooker/2004wor...ships/index.php
crashes things. It does.
The O.P. of this Bugzilla was running on Fedora Core (does not say
which), and I get the same problems with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, so
I assume it is not a kernel problem but a Firefox problem. Whatever that
proves. BTW: that link renders OK with Konqueror.
>
> If you have the latest Java already installed, it is also possible that
> the web page(s) is poorly written against the standards you can try
> using; http://www.chrispederick.com/work/f...ragentswitcher/
> and 'switch' firefox and/or mozilla to IE6 (XP) and see if that helps
> any.
>
>
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 07:35:00 up 3 days, 21:52, 4 users, load average: 4.28, 4.26, 4.20
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| Lenard 2005-03-29, 6:09 pm |
| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
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> I looked at BugZilla bug #143637 and he says
>
> http://www.ibsf.org/snooker/2004wor...ships/index.php
I get a Java console popup (which I just close), but the page renders
OK; http://www.fedoraforum.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=797
I did take the time and update my Java JRE version to the same as yours.
Running FC3 (modified) and using; firefox-1.0.2-3.i386.rpm
$ Java -version
java version "1.5.0_02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_02-b09)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_02-b09, mixed mode, sharing)
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Jean-David Beyer 2005-03-29, 6:09 pm |
| Lenard wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
>
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> I get a Java console popup (which I just close), but the page renders
> OK; http://www.fedoraforum.org/gallery/showimage.php?i=797
>
> I did take the time and update my Java JRE version to the same as yours.
> Running FC3 (modified) and using; firefox-1.0.2-3.i386.rpm
>
> $ Java -version
> Java version "1.5.0_02"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_02-b09)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_02-b09, mixed mode, sharing)
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Still does not work for me. No popup, no nothing. FireFox disappears
without a trace.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 10:05:00 up 4 days, 22 min, 3 users, load average: 4.01, 4.06, 4.07
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| Lenard 2005-03-29, 6:09 pm |
| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> Still does not work for me. No popup, no nothing. FireFox disappears
> without a trace.
>
As an experiment try in firefox(and maybe mozilla);
(firefox)
Edit-->Preferences-->Web Features disable(uncheck) Enable Java
(mozilla)
Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced disable(uncheck) Enable Java
This stopped my Java Console pop-up error at;
http://www.ibsf.org/snooker/2004wor...ships/index.php
and (another) test site; http://www.fedora-nieuws.nl/
$ rpm -qa 'mozilla*'
mozilla-nspr-1.7.6-2
mozilla-mail-1.7.6-2
mozilla-1.7.6-2
mozilla-nss-1.7.6-2
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| Jean-David Beyer 2005-03-29, 6:09 pm |
| Lenard wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>
>
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> As an experiment try in firefox(and maybe mozilla);
>
> (firefox)
> Edit-->Preferences-->Web Features disable(uncheck) Enable Java
Tried it. Makes no difference. Crashes almost immediately (before
anything is rendered on the screen).
>
> (mozilla)
> Edit-->Preferences-->Advanced disable(uncheck) Enable Java
>
> This stopped my Java Console pop-up error at;
> http://www.ibsf.org/snooker/2004wor...ships/index.php
>
> and (another) test site; http://www.fedora-nieuws.nl/
>
> $ rpm -qa 'mozilla*'
> mozilla-nspr-1.7.6-2
> mozilla-mail-1.7.6-2
> mozilla-1.7.6-2
> mozilla-nss-1.7.6-2
>
>
$ rpm -qa | grep mozilla
mozilla-nss-1.4.4-1.3.5
mozilla-nspr-1.4.4-1.3.5
Am I supposed to have mozilla installed to run firefox? Seems nuts to
me. I am surprised the two things above are even still there, since I
did a rm -e mozilla.
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 13:50:00 up 4 days, 4:07, 3 users, load average: 4.28, 4.23, 4.15
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