CentOS - Jan 2008 - Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

I sent a bug report to Mozilla about this, but I was hoping someone here
might have an insight on this.

I use SeaMonkey as my default browser (32-bit even though I'm running x86_64
CentOS 5.1), version 1.1.7.

Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I noticed
that every so often, seemingly at random, although it appears most
frequently when I click on something that wants to interact with the file
system, the SeaMonkey window just closes.  If I reopen it and go to the same
place and try the same thing, it works just fine (and usually, the second SM
window is more stable and doesn't do that again).

This frequently happens when I try to save a web page, load an email
attachment, print a page, or anything that interacts with the file system.
Just now it happened when I tried to switch tabs, but that's unusual.

Anyone have a clue?

TIA.

mhr
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MHR wrote:
> I sent a bug report to Mozilla about this, but I was hoping someone here
> might have an insight on this.
> 
> I use SeaMonkey as my default browser (32-bit even though I'm running
> x86_64 CentOS 5.1), version 1.1.7.
> 
> Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I noticed
> that every so often, seemingly at random, although it appears most
> frequently when I click on something that wants to interact with the
> file system, the SeaMonkey window just closes.  If I reopen it and go to
> the same place and try the same thing, it works just fine (and usually,
> the second SM window is more stable and doesn't do that again).
> 
> This frequently happens when I try to save a web page, load an email
> attachment, print a page, or anything that interacts with the file
> system.  Just now it happened when I tried to switch tabs, but that's
> unusual.
> 
> Anyone have a clue?
I've been having this happen on Firefox the last week or two since I
loaded CentOS 5.1 on my laptop, on just a plain old 32 bit system.

firefox-1.5.0.12-7.el5.centos

I thought it was perhaps one of my plugins I have installed, so I've
just been dealing with it because I haven't had time to check it out.
Mine is doing exactly the same thing.

Regards,
Max

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MHR wrote:
> I sent a bug report to Mozilla about this, but I was hoping someone here 
> might have an insight on this.
> 
> I use SeaMonkey as my default browser (32-bit even though I'm running 
> x86_64 CentOS 5.1), version 1.1.7.
> 
> Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I noticed 
> that every so often, seemingly at random, although it appears most 
> frequently when I click on something that wants to interact with the 
> file system, the SeaMonkey window just closes.  
you mean seamonkey crashes, right? ie, all other seamonkey windows on 
the box close?
I've been seeing that at home on a 32-bit centos 5 system... very annoying!
But I haven't noticed it on my 64-bit machine at work, where I use an 
x86_64 seamonkey (with nspluginwrapper for flash), straight rebuild of 
seamonkey-1.1.7-1.fc7.src.rpm.

You might want to try that.

> Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I
> noticed that every so often, 
> seemingly at random, although it appears most frequently when I
> click on something that wants 
I have also experienced this problem and characterized it briefly by 
unscientific trial and error (FWIW). I found that whenever it dies it is trying 
to open a new window per javascript ALERT or CONFIRM directives. This 
happens intermittently and NONrepeatably on both 32 and 64 bit flavours of 
5.1 and no other js commands seem to be related (including whether a 
flash file is or is not being displayed). This started late last year. It was
not
so much of a nusiance that I bothered to see what updates coincided with it 
then and I would just be guessing if I looked back now.

The problem seems to lie in the code by which FF/SM open windows in 
those two javascript commands.  I run Adblock, noscript, NViIDIA's 
proprietary drivers, kde and permissive selinux.  Nothing of interest appears 
in /var/log/<anything> or dmesg coincident with the failure.


regards,

benm

On 7 Jan 2008, at 15:46, MHR wrote:
> I sent a bug report to Mozilla about this, but I was hoping someone  
> here might have an insight on this.
>
> I use SeaMonkey as my default browser (32-bit even though I'm  
> running x86_64 CentOS 5.1), version 1.1.7.
>
> Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I  
> noticed that every so often, seemingly at random, although it  
> appears most frequently when I click on something that wants to  
> interact with the file system, the SeaMonkey window just closes.   
> If I reopen it and go to the same place and try the same thing, it  
> works just fine (and usually, the second SM window is more stable  
> and doesn't do that again).
>
> This frequently happens when I try to save a web page, load an  
> email attachment, print a page, or anything that interacts with the  
> file system.  Just now it happened when I tried to switch tabs, but  
> that's unusual.
>
> Anyone have a clue?
>
> TIA.
>
> mhr
>

Just adding another "me too" to the pot, as I've been experiencing
random window disappearances of Firefox 1.5 lately as well (i686).
I'm a newcomer to the Red Hat world (lured by SELinux), and during my  
Debian years I've never had this issue with Firefox/Iceweasel (from  
0.9 to 1.5.12), so I'm guessing there has to be something about Re  
Hat packages.

I was actually thinking it was caused my TabMix Plus extension that I  
just installed, but seeing this thread makes me believe otherwise...


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