Firefox dying out

[Greg Booth]

On 7/19/07, Howard Coles Jr. <dhcolesj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:16:53 pm Macario Valle wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 12:43 -0500, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> > > I was just curious as to whether anyone else had seen this behavior.
> > >
> > > Firefox has started going away without warning or reason.  I can't find a
> > > log file that gives anything more than "segfault", and I'm not exactly
> > > what I have added or updated that has caused it.  It didn't seem to start
> > > with any particular software change or update, and hasn't been fixed by
> > > any so far. I'm just wondering if an addon is causing me problems.
> > >
> > > Maybe its the google desktop beta I'm running.
> > >
> > > --
> > > See Ya'
> > > Howard Coles Jr.
> > > John 3:16!
> >
> > I had this problem and I was able to trace it back to  Adblock Plus.
> > This might not be your problem at all but it might be some other addon
> > that is buggy.
> > I had subscribed to about five different filters.  I went ahead and
> > uninstalled it, then went though the config files and deleted every
> > trace of it.
> > After a day of browsing without it, and having no problems, i
> > reinstalled it, and sure enough the problem returned.  Needless to say,
> > I got rid of it again and the problem went with it.
> > Note: I do not use addons much, use to have only to, Now I only have
> > one; Image Zoom.  I use it to check the output quality of the images i
> > add to my web design and catch any trouble before the client complains.
>
> Thanks for the responses.  I was kinda thinking along these lines, but I
> thought maybe it was a flacky version of Firefox.
>
> I'll have to track down the odd culprit or combo.  It may be like others have
> said, not one bad addon, but two addons that don't get a long.
>
> --
> See Ya'
> Howard Coles Jr.
> John 3:16!

The other hard part is cleaning up everything to get firefox
reinstalled clean. You've got to remove not only firefox, but ALL
mozilla plugin packages from Kubuntu, the ~/.mozilla directory, ALL
sorts of stuff.

Greg