firefox broken

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 8 December 2010 15:50, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Colin Law wrote:
> >> What ssh command are you using to connect?
> >
> > ssh -X hostname
> >
> >> What command are you running to start FF?
> >
> > firefox
> >
> >> What happens if you run remotely from the third machine, but as
> >> yourself as user?
> >
> > It works normally.
>
> So third machine to Ubuntu machine is ok, but your desktop to Ubuntu
> machine is not.  Doesn't that mean that it is your desktop that is the
> one with the problem, rather than the Ubuntu one?
>
> Colin
>

There's definitely something odd going on with FF.  I run it on Ubuntu,
Vista, Win 7, and
Gentoo.  On Gentoo only, it has become unusable because it crashes withing
the first
few mouse clicks.  The machine is otherwise idle, has 4 cores, plenty of
hard drive space and
2 GB ram which is mostly free.

I'm going to try some of these same suggestions given above about changing
users and profiles and
see if I can resuscitate it.

The reason I'm posting here is to suggest to one and all that it's not FF
itself, or the
OS, but something that happens to the data.


-- 

Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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