Firefox blocks my firefox in hoary ubuntu

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:56:31PM +0200, Jesús Gascón Gómez wrote:
> >From time to time and randomly, when I visit some websites with Firefox,
> everything in gnome gets freezed, and I have to reset my computer.

Are certain websites always the problem?

> Has anybody the same problem? Should I see firefox' logs in case I find
> there the problem? 

I don't think that Firefox has logs. Though I'd be
pleasantly surprised if it did. Ordinarily when you submit a
bug to Bugzilla, you do an strace(1). So if you think you
can reliably reproduce the crash, try stracing Firefox when
you think the problem's going to show up. Output the strace
to a file; that file will contain everything up to the
moment that the system freezes.

Does the whole system freeze, or just GNOME? Can you press
LeftCtrl+Alt+F1 to get a virtual terminal? If even the
virtual terminal doesn't come up, then you've got a
systemwide crash. If it does come up, it's just GNOME that's
crashed. In the latter case, go to a virtual terminal, log
in, and kill GDM (/etc/init.d/gdm stop). You'll need to be
root to do that.

> How can I find any solution? Can the problem be in java, mozilla,
> etc...?

The only way to find out is to be a good scientist and
remove all the other variables that could possibly be
causing the problem. Uninstall any extensions and see if the
problem persists. Better yet, download the stock version of
Firefox from mozilla.org, install it, and see if you can
reproduce the problem in there. That way you can tell if
it's an Ubuntu-Firefox problem or a stock-Firefox problem.

> I've tryed to change the macromedia Flash version which comes with Warty
> by the one by firefox, but it doesn't solve my problem.

...So it's probably not Flash. Is it Flash sites that always
crash your browser?

I don't believe Firefox ships with a Flash player. What do
you mean?

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