Firefox Karmic freezing

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 16:20 -0300, Marcelo Magno T. Sales wrote:
> Em Quarta-feira 14 Abril 2010, Perry escreveu:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After a long strech of almost daily updates offered through
> > KPackageKit for firefox (now Namoroka/3.6.4pre), it has become
> > almost unusable.
> > 
> > For example, launching from a shell I get:
> > 	(firefox-bin:2539): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called 
> multiple
> > times then if I go to <http://www.wordreference.com/fr/> or
> > <http://www.ch.map24.com> I get
> > 	** (firefox-bin:2563): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 15
> > 	** (firefox-bin:2563): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 13
> > end FF becomes unresponsive.
> > I can look up a word in Google, but clicking on a link *may* cause FF
> > freezing too.
> > 
> > I waited some days for another update that would fix this problem,
> > but  the devs essm satisfied with what they attained  ;O)))
> > (or it's somewhat harder to fix and they are working hard at it)
> > 
> > Also not seeing this problem appear on the list opens the possibility
> > that the updates are not responsible.
> > 
> > I tried googling (with Konqueror) but did not come yet with a simple
> > answer, ether too many hits or too few, depending on the keywords.
> > One suggestion I could try is replace the 3.6.4pre version with the
> > stable 3.6.3...someone knows the best way to achieve this? or can
> > anyone offer another suggestion.
> 
> I think it is a plugin problem. This was happening to me very often with 
> flash and mainly with java.
> After the last updates, flash does not cause me problems anymore. 
> However, the icedtea plugin is VERY, VERY unstable. Problem solved 
> replacing it with Sun's plugin.

IcedTea has been problamatic since the day of it's inception. Why do
they bother to continue after Java became released as open? Ric
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