firefox is regularly dying

[Matej Cepl]

On 2009-04-13, 21:31 GMT, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> Fair enough.  It could be a number of things.  Hopefully they 
>> get
>> corrected so that these problems can be taken care off.  I'll try
>> the gimp if I have a chance and see if it too freezes the system.
>
>   we've isolated it to the fact that i need the directive
>
>   Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
>
> in my xorg.conf.  that solves the issues i've been having.

What's your graphics card? Please file a bug against 
xorg-x11-drv-{ati,intel,nouveau,whatever} component and don't 
forget to attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if any exists), 
/var/log/dmesg, and /var/log/Xorg.0.log as separate uncompressed 
attachments.

Matěj