[K12OSN] Firefox suddenly crashes

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Tue Jul 3 16:34:51 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 09:49 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> > 2. Another problem is firefox just suddenly closes while visiting a page 
> > or reading something.
> > 
> > What could be the causes of this problem?
> 
> buggy. I have just seen 32 bit firefox die instantly (and repeatably)
> when I right-click on a running flash section. This is an upstream
> support issue that centos->redhat->mozilla needs to handle. A debug line
> indicated an error with the gecko rendering engine.
> > 

Sort-of resolved this issue. It seems the error only occurs if the root
user is logged into the console (yes. bad form using browser as root. I
was testing and forgot to log out.) but the crash does NOT occur for
other non-root users on clients or console.
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James P. Kinney III          
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Local Net Solutions,LLC        
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