[K12OSN] Firefox crashes

Almquist Burke balmquist at mindfirestudios.com
Thu May 10 23:14:52 UTC 2007


Just curious, does the site use flash??

On May 10, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Michael Blinn wrote:

> Well crap. I suppose that means my upgrade to FC6 planned for  
> tomorrow is not going to solve my problems then.
> -Michael
>
> Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
>> i just found out that i have this issue too :-( on a new old  
>> machine we just got from a junkyard.
>> we use fc6 + ltsp 4.2 on the server. and the terminal has a i810  
>> video card + 1M ram amongst other hardware.
>>
>> it crashes the X on clicking a specific site. thou right-click and  
>> open in a new window does not crash the firefox (ver 2.0.0.3)
>> also, opening the same site with Opera works fine (which is our  
>> main browser on a kde session)
>>
>> i'll try setting the video card driver manually to svga and see  
>> what happens... (tomorrow)
>>
>> On 5/4/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>  
>> wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 16:40 -0400, Michael Blinn wrote:
>> > Disabling JavaScript makes everything work. The Bummer is that  
>> the LAMP
>> > database I wrote for our staff uses quite a bit of JavaScript, so I
>> > can't turn it off for everyone. I think test #2309385 will be to  
>> update
>> > to v6, which (I think) has a newer xorg, gnome and metacity, and  
>> see if
>> > it still happens.. at least now we know the root cause.
>>
>> Unless that site is a requirement, just block it at the server using
>> squidguard. Then you can leave javascript on.
>> >
>> > (By the way, when you say 'let them know', do you mean filing a  
>> bugzilla
>> > report?)
>>
>> Yes. File a bugzilla report. Since it is repeatable on your  
>> chipset and
>> it is a very common chipset, let the firefox devs know.
>> >
>> > Thank you James & Jim for your help in whittling this down. I'll  
>> keep
>> > you posted.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >  Michael
>> >
>> > James P. Kinney III wrote:
>> > > THAT is interesting! So the browser is crashing the display  
>> manager
>> > > during a nasty load in of javascript.
>> > >
>> > > Test #2309384 :)
>> > >
>> > > Open firefox, disable javascript and try it again. If it  
>> doesn't crash,
>> > > it's a javascript bug in firefox. Let them know the version  
>> and link for
>> > > the crash.
>> > >
>> > > Note: many site have lousy javascript that cause many  
>> problems. The real
>> > > bug is on their end.
>> >
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