Firefox crashing very often in Edgy ?

nix4me nix4me at cfl.rr.com
Thu Oct 26 23:54:00 BST 2006


Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Constantine Evans wrote:
>
>   
>> Are you referring to general instability or bug 14911
>> (https://launchpad.net/products/firefox/+bug/14911), the
>> firefox+flash+ARGB crash, which rather reliably crashes firefox whenever
>> flash is used?
>>     
>
> setting XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 before running firefox helps somewhat, 
> but doesn't make the problem go away entirely (not for me at least).
>
>   
>> Since, unfortunately, it seems that so many people use
>> flashplugin-nonfree, perhaps the bug needs to be noted somewhere (maybe
>> during installation?).
>>     
>
> perhaps
>
>
> t
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>   
My firefox has been frozen solid 3 days in a row when i got home from 
work.  Not sure if its flash causing this or not.

I had 2 tabs open all 3 times, cnn.com and slashdot.

nix4me



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