Firefox 3.5 beta occasionally completely locks system when starting f11 x86_64

[stan]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:51:46 -0430
"Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Try "firefox -safe-mode". If it still happens, report a bug. If not,
> the problem is probably in one of your add-ons. You can then
> selectively enable them till you discover which one it is.

Tried this a half dozen times, no problem.  So I tried the regular
method a dozen times, no problem.  There should have been a couple
of lock ups with that many starts.  

There was an update to gnome-common today, so I logged in and out.
Maybe that update fixed the problem.  I'll keep monitoring.