firefox crash

[Rob Clark]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:24 +0100
dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.nl> wrote:

> On 30 Oct patrick wrote:
> > Hi list
> > 
> > I had firefox-1.5.0.4 running on my workstation at home and at work. Two
> > weeks ago firefox crashed the first time. On both (work and home). After
> > many crashes i installed firefox-devel (firefox - 2.0). But now it is
> > the same. It just crashes without any reason. I am using Freebsd
> > 6.1-BETA1. 
> > Has anybody a problem like that and/or a solution?
> > If needed I can send a corefile.
> 
> Same here. Nothing changed on the server. No updates not nothing. Still,
> Firefox has started to crash randomly on sites it formerly never did!
> 
> I'm not willing to investigate in plugins installed or whatever, because
> as I said, *nothing* has changed. Only the behaviour of firefox suddenly
> became very unstable. Weird, very weird.
>  
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> 
Ditto, I have seen the same thing 2 or 3 times in the last couple of weeks.
Running:  Firefox/1.5.0.7 
Running:  6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Oct 29 16:41:34 EST 2006
I've been updating ports daily for about a week now, and must admit, I haven't seen seen Firefox crash again.

Other:
Also, I noticed that approximately 2 weeks ago (or less, that when saving a file Firefox would do file name completion when saving files using a similar naming convention:
i.e., 
foo1.bar
foo2.bar
foo3.bar
etc...
This was made it easy to just increment a file by 1, and save.
This completion would show in the 'Enter name of file to save to ...'
dialog box as a drop down from the 'Name' field, with file name completion as
mentioned above-- but this useful feature sadly no longer seems to work either.

Sure seems like something has changed (e.g., stability and features). 

Thanks,
Rob

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