[K12OSN] Anyone having issues with Firefox? (K12LTSP 5)

[Harmen Hofstra]

Michael,

I had these problems a while ago. It had something to do with the flash 
plugin.
I added

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

to /usr/bin/firefox

That solved my problem.

Good luck I hope it works

Harmen
Michael Elliott wrote:
> Hi and thanks for taking the time to read my message.  Is anyone having 
> issues with Firefox closing while searching the web?
> 
> I had a couple of users tell me they were having problems with Firefox 
> closing.  One user basically just said that it was on msn.com.  So I 
> tried to make it crash myself.  I went to several sites that I would 
> think they would use:
> 
> abcnews.com
> foxnews.com
> cbs.com
> cnn.com
> cnnsi.com
> nbcsports.com
> msnbc.com
> msn.com (crashed once here)
> si.com (crashed once here)
> slashdot.org
> google.com (crashed once here)
> 
> What I would do is go to each of these sites in this order.  Where I put 
> crashed here, it was in that sequence of sites visited.
> 
> I have a basic install of K12LTSP 5, just installed a couple of weeks 
> ago, no other updates have been applied or applications installed.  It 
> occurs on multiple terminals, the only difference I can see is that it 
> is random on how long it will take.
> 
> Any ideas would be very welcome.
> 
> Thanks -
> 
> Mike
>