firefox is regularly dying

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Christopher Beland wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 21:25 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > Internet Keywords in Firefox are enabled by default for Fedora
> > 11's flavor of Firefox, which means that the Domain Guessing
> > feature is disabled. If domain guessing is disabled, Firefox will
> > not prepend or append domain prefixes or suffixes.
>
> I don't think so; with firefox-3.1-0.11.beta3.fc11.x86_64, I can
> type just "linux-kvm.org" or even "linux-kvm" and get the right
> page.

  we've tracked down the problem:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495454

it had nothing to do with internet keywords, it was a radeon driver
acceleration issue and you can read the workaround there.

rday
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p.s.  and while i'm here, francois cami suggested i upgrade the bios
on this system as a possible solution.  i checked, and my current bios
version is phoenix 9D.03.  and i can see a newer version here --
9D.05:

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/getFile.asp?id=21980&dscr=BIOS%20flash%20Version%209D.05%2005/23/2008

so how *does* one upgrade the bios from fedora conveniently?
curiously, in all my years of working with red hat/fedora, i've never
had to do that.

rday
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