Frequent crashes with Mozilla and Firefox

[Karel J. Bosschaart]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 08:59:07PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Your Name wrote:
> > In the last few weeks ive started getting a number of
> > crashes using either Mozilla or Firefox. im using the 
> > newest version of each from Ports, on FreeBSD 4.9.
> 
> Sorry for the "me too" post, but since people are reporting
> different results: I have two main computers, one running
> 4.10 and one running 5.2-CURRENT, but with otherwise
> similar setups. GNOME in both cases.
>
So I'm not the only one!? I'm using Firefox on 4.10 and 5.2 with KDE
and found that it's quite OK on 5.2 but crashes often on 4.10, I think
mostly on webpages with flash content.
 
> The CURRENT machine is fine; I'm pretty sure I've never had a
> crash in several months of operation. The 4.10 machine is

Never? Wow. I can't say that here but I consider a weekly crash or so for
a browser nowadays an excellent achievement ;-).

> similar to the OP's report: I get relatively frequent but
> unpredictable crashes on complex Web pages, with both
> Mozilla and Firefox.

Can't say anything for Mozilla.
 
> It's annoying, and I'd love to know causes and solutions!

Because it's so difficult to reproduce it's also hard to find the cause :-(.
I plan to try linux-opera on 4.10. Should do flash and java... (being unable
to get java working was what made me switch from Opera to Firefox couple
of months ago)

Karel.