Firefox instability in Hoary

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:16:25PM -0600, Kent Frazier wrote:

> Has anyone else had some serious instability in Firefox since the
> recent Hoary upgrades?  I think I can narrow them down to after I
> installed kernel 2.6.10, but I am not sure if the new kernel version
> is responsible for this, especially since it has happened a few times
> when I booted from the old 2.6.9 kernel.
> 
> Sometimes when I go to open a new tab or click on some links, the
> browser just disappears.  It gives me no error message or anything,
> just crashes and dumps me at my desktop.  It has happened about 5
> times so far, and I have not yet found a pattern in what causes the
> crash.
> 
> Anyone experiencing anything similar?  Anyone know how to avoid
> crashing my browser?

I'm running up-to-date Hoary and my firefox is as stable as ever.  If you
have any extensions or plugins installed, try removing them and see if it
helps.

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 - mdz