feisty fawn => laptop sudenly dead

[Matthew Flaschen]

Alain Muls wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I switched to FF beta (I know) and worked for a cuple of days quite 
> comfortably. But than, all of a sudden the PC went dead. Pressing the power 
> button did not boot up and I had to use the diagnostic boot feature of the 
> Dell Inspiron. AFter that it worked again, but today the sudden death 
> appeared again. Is there something wrong with the management of the battery 
> in FF? I never had such a behaviour using DD LTS.

I know people say Firefox implements too much low-level
functionality...but somehow I don't think it's doing battery management.
  I would check your fan before you start suspecting userspace
applications. :)

Matthew Flaschen