Random firefox closing and logouts
ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
zamb at saudi.net.sa
Mon May 9 14:00:32 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 07:23 -0400, Ben Novack wrote:
> I finally installed Hoary a couple of days ago after being without an
> Ubuntu system for a couple of months. Since then, I've had two major
> problems, both now very frequently:
>
> 1) Firefox closes, without any warning at all, constantly. I'll just
> be browsing around, and *pop* the process is gone. This seems to
> happen a lot when I'm using Liferea, but not exclusively.
> 2) I get logged out, also without any warning. Minutes ago, I was
> trying to reopen firefox yet again; failed; all of a sudden I heard
> the patter of drums and I was looking at my GDM login.
>
> Anyone know what might be going on here?
>
PLEASE READ THE WHOLE MESSAGE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
About Firefox:
As Pat Taylor said in the other mail.
About the sudden logout(s):
Is your hardware okay? I had the same problem in the past.
Turns out that my RAM and the mainboard were not compatible.
After solving that, I can't remember I had any sudden logout
from GNOME.
Test your system integrity with "Ubuntu, kernel memtest86+" menu
option from Grub when booting. Be patient as it takes a while
to test all the memory.
Ben Novack and Pat Taylor:
If you install Firefox 1.0.2 be sure to disable JavaScript and
don't use the Sidebar (and there is another nasty bug that I
don't know how to avoid in 1.0.2). Check this link[1]. THIS IS
A VERY SERIOUS SECURITY PROBLEM!
Best thing to do is to install Firefox 1.0.3 from Mozilla
site[2], by adding the Backports[3] repository to APT, or even
downloading the packages[4] and installing them manually.
Links:
1. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html
2. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
3. http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/
4. http://backports.ubuntuforums.org/backports/dists/hoary-backports/main/binary-i386/
(Download mozilla-firefox and mozilla-firefox-gnome-support from
the above link.)
Ziyad.
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