Firefox Issues

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 11:18 -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 05:19 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> > On 07/23/2010 11:19 PM, Barry Premeaux wrote:
> > > I am running 9.10 and recently got an update to Firefox.  It is now at
> > > 3.6.7+build 2.  Now when I go to some web sites, it crashes.  Or, when
> > > I click on a link, it crashes.  I am wondering if anyone else is
> > > experiencing this as well?
> > >
> > > Barry
> > >
> > >    
> > I am running version 10,04 and the same thing happened. I am getting 
> > tired of so called Security updates ruining all the flash drivers :-(
> > 
> > 73 Karl
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > 	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
> > 	Linux User
> > 	#450462   http://counter.li.org.
> >          Key ID = 3951B48D
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> No problems with The Dredge (I wouldn't read it anyway), no problem
> reading any article at Fox News, and GMail works as usual. Running
> Ubuntu 10.04 with Firefox 3.6.7. 
> 
> I normally run Swiftfox (i686 version) and it runs so much faster in
> it's response times to opening links and just all around performance. I
> understand your frustration, but, maybe try an alternative until the
> problem can be fully resolved? Once again, no problems on my end.

I played merry hell trying to watch a PBS video last night, at pbs.org.
I finally got it to work by disabling flashblocker. I had used their
standard blacklist which blacklisted a bunch of URLs needed to view the
video. Good ole PBS, I suppose they have to justify their existence with
a ton of google analytics. "Hey! Hey! Someone just accessed Bill Moyers!
Woo! Woo!" <swears> Ric