stability of firefox/thunderbird etc.

[Brian Chadwick]

Peter Teuben wrote:
> The recent announcement of the stability of firefox and thunderbird for RHEL5
> is exactly what I've been having on FC7 myself. At random times either
> program simply crashes, i've had this with pidgin as well,but not as often.
>
> Announcement is on:   https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0147.html
>
> The solution was claimed to be relinking with correct libraries.
>
> I've tried the stock 2.0 series, but in real life I now use the 3.0 beta,
> and both have exactly the same behavior. They crash a few times per week,
> i'd dare to say thunderbird might be even more unstable under equal use.
>
>
> - peter
>
>   
and yet i have found both to extremely stable. go figure