[Bug 612131] Re: Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs)]

Sorry I've been kind of busy and haven't gotten back to you on this. I
really do appreciate your attempt to follow up on it, and I value your
technical acumen, but like many people, I have competing priorities.
I've already noted why Ubuntu has become a relatively low one for me.
More importantly, it seems that almost no one else is seeing anything
similar enough to this problem to add their comments in this thread, so
I'm willing to assume it is just something I'm doing wrong or something
unusual about my configuration on that particular machine. If it will
help diagnose a more widespread problem, then I'm willing to put more
time into it (but I'm still going to be hard pressed to give it much
priority).

I don't understand your explanation of the Firefox 3.0 versus 3.5 thing.
This machine was almost surely originally a Firefox 2.0 machine, and now
that it's been upgraded to 9.10, I don't see how Firefox 3.0 is
involved. (However, I do see how that might prevent other people with
similar problems from finding this thread, since it is absolutely clear
the problem did not appear until the Firefox upgrade, probably to
version 3.6.)

What I can say is that this particular shutdown seems to be less
frequent now. Unfortunately, I can't correlate it to anything that has
changed, and I never had the bug in a can. Without a trigger mechanism
to reproduce the bug on demand, who can tell anything? Unfortunately, as
I had suspected, the WSOD problem has become more frequent with the
updated version of Ubuntu on that machine. Right now both of these
crashes are rare enough to tolerate, but I'm knocking on wood.
Especially for the WSOD, it wouldn't take too much of an increase to
make the machine unusable.

Big picture solution? I'm probably going to try forcing the main
experimental partition on the troubled machine to a different version of
Ubuntu at some point after the next release (after waiting long enough
for the early mortality bugs to be eliminated). However, when I replace
the machine, which will probably be early next year, I have no plans to
do any serious Ubuntu work on the new one. I probably won't even bother
with the virtual machine approach, given the problems encountered on
three machines where I've been using Ubuntu in VMware Player virtual
machines... (I still have no Windows 7 machines of my own, but at least
it isn't an obvious stinker like Vista--and Linux has (in my judgment)
returned to the not-ready-for-real-world-use status. I'm saddened and
disappointed, but...)

(By the way, what's gone wrong with the BitTorrent download of the basic
10.04? The 9.08 version is apparently still valid, but 10.04 is being
disavowed by the Ubuntu.com website? I was still sharing both seeds, but
now the 10.04 is just an error message, and I'm sort of guessing that
the release version of 10.04 was so bad that it's been replaced, and the
Ubuntu people just don't want to talk about it. I haven't been motivated
enough to pursue another Ubuntu problem now...)

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Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox
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