Bug in firefox?

[Evan Monroig]

Wow, thanks. It is exactly the info I needed :). I will try to improve
my bug reporting skills with your advice (^_^)

Evan

On 4/13/05, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yesterday Firefox couldn't respond to anything and I had to kill it
> > and restart it again. I would like to file a bug for this, but I have
> > no clue as to how to reproduce it...
> >
> > When I experience this kind of hang/crash, what can I do to get
> > information that will help developpers find the source of the bug?
> 
> the first step is to find a way to reproduce it.  If you can' , then
> the developpers really don't have a lot to work with to track the bug
> down.  Once you find a way to reproduce it, then you can run firefox
> from the command line and see if it generate any errors when you
> reproduce the bug.
> 
> Other steps to try as well tp try to track the bug down: does the bug
> appears if you don't have any plugins or extensions.  Is it also
> present if you start using a new user profile.
> 
> But at this point without more information than " firefox crashed"  I
> don't think it's worth filling a bug report.
> 
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