Firefox crashed frequently

[Michael]

Colin Brace wrote:
> On 7/30/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> the blowser crashed frequently.  Please advise how to fix it.  Tks.  I
>> got this problem fixed on FC5_64 but unfortunately I forgot its
>> remendy.
>
> Do you have either the gxine or mplayer plugins installed? (type in
> "about:plugins") I was encountering constant and frequent spontaneous
> crashes with these plugins installed, even on pages with no
> audio/video content. I never determined exactly which one of these was
> the culprit, but removing them both solved the problem. 
I have the same problem and i didn't think about mplayer plugin until 
now. The strange think is that firefox crash even if there is no media 
on the loaded pages. It can be also the macromedia flash plugin, witch 
is very buggy.


> At the moment,
> I use the vlc plugin, which works fine.
>
> FWIW, I am running ubuntu on a 686 system.
>
> HTH/YMMV
>


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Michael
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