Question about firefox

[David N. Lombard]

jerry wrote:
> I am running Kubuntu 8.04 and using firefox 3.0.14 and have a sometimes 
> intermittent problem with firefox. I have over 1 GB ram and a P4 cpu.
> It usually happens intermittently and repairs itself, but the only way 
> that I can reproduce the problem consistently is to go to the website 
> http://www.picnik.com/
> and try to upload a photo. The site says that it is compatible with 
> linux. When I upload a photo (actually a jpg that I use for a wallpaper) 
> it uploads the jpg and very soon firefox turn black and white and shades 
> of gray and locks up. I have to kill firefox, but all other programs are 
> not affected. I have tried to do it in firefox safe-mode (all addons 
> disabled) and the problem still occurs. I have pasted the end of dmesg 
> at the bottom of the post but it does not appear relevant to me.
> Appreciate any ideas about what is going on and how to correct it.

Wowsers.  Didn't get the color show, but it did lock up Firefox. :)
No clue why, it wasn't due to excessive CPU demand.  Try "Report Broken 
Web Site..." under FF's Help menu. They may be able to figure out what 
happened.

Curious about their claim of Linux compatibility, as FF would be the 
expected vehicle.

In any event, what are you trying to do?  ImageMagick is an outstanding 
tool, usable from the command line via the convert utility or from 
various programming languages--I use Image::Magick with Perl extensively 
to create label's for my wife's business.

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David N. Lombard