Problem with 64bit Firefox and Thuderbird exiting

David W. Florence dwflo at comcast.net
Sat Apr 22 09:04:08 UTC 2006



David G. Miller wrote:
> "David W. Florence" <dwflo at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Hope someone can help.
>> Having this recurring problem with Firefox and Thunderbird exiting 
>> when clicking on some URL referrals. Some sites will not display, the 
>> applications will exit without any errors. Examples are 
>> planetamd64.com, freashmeat.org and Fox News Gretawire.
>> Have posted a thread on the FedoraForum site, but no helpful replies. 
>> Searched Bugzilla, but nothing there. Have installed all the latest 
>> updates available, deleted profiles, did a fresh install of FC5 
>> 64bit, you name it, I have done it!
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave
>>
> Not seeing that on my laptop (single core AMD 64) running FC4 x86_64 
> (just updated to today's kernel) with 64 bit versions of Firefox and 
> Thunderbird.  All sites loaded correctly assuming you meant 
> freshmeat.net.  Any chance that this is a browser plug-in problem.  I 
> consider it a feature not to have flash installed.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
Thanks Dave,

There is a flash plugin and the library, available from Livna. But it 
does not solve the problem.

Regards,
Dave




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