I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can replicate it as many times as I want by going to... http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there. I'm writing for a couple reasons. I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have experienced it or can replicate it. And I was also wondering how I can remove Firefox 3.5 and its associated support files and get back to the regular repository. Firefox 3.5, for the most part, is very stable and is snappier than 3.0.11 -- only two sites have pages have crashed for me, but when it crashes it takes down my whole system and that's not good. And, if someone could mention this on the forum (there is a thread about Firefox 3.5) I would appreciate it. I can't log on to the forums. I am supposed to ask for another password, but I can't remember what my original email address was (2 or 3 years ago). Thanks for any pointers. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3
At Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most > part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes > that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. > > It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can > replicate it as many times as I want by going to... > > http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter > > ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there. > > I'm writing for a couple reasons. > > I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have > experienced it or can replicate it.I have heard about various problems people over in MS-Windows land have had with Firefox 3.5. It appears that FF 3.5 is not quite ready for production systems.> > And I was also wondering how I can remove Firefox 3.5 and its > associated support files and get back to the regular repository.rpm -hUv --oldpackage firefox-3.0.10-<mumble>.i386.rpm Were there other dependcies? If so, you may have roll them back too.> > Firefox 3.5, for the most part, is very stable and is snappier than > 3.0.11 -- only two sites have pages have crashed for me, but when it > crashes it takes down my whole system and that's not good. > > And, if someone could mention this on the forum (there is a thread > about Firefox 3.5) I would appreciate it. I can't log on to the > forums. I am supposed to ask for another password, but I can't > remember what my original email address was (2 or 3 years ago). > > Thanks for any pointers. >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
Ron Blizzard wrote:> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most > part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes > that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. > > It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can > replicate it as many times as I want by going to... > > http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter > > ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there. > > I'm writing for a couple reasons. > > I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have > experienced it or can replicate it.Confirmed - also i386 mharris packaging. Tring x86_64 (rebuild of his src.rpm) momentarily ...
Ron Blizzard wrote:> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most > part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes > that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. > > It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can > replicate it as many times as I want by going to... > > http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter > > ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there. > > I'm writing for a couple reasons. > > I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have > experienced it or can replicate it.My x86_64 build does not crash on the newsletters, interestingly enough.
Ron Blizzard wrote:> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most > part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes > that take down CentOS, not just Firefox. > > It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can > replicate it as many times as I want by going to... > > http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter > > ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there. > >FWIW (about $0.0002), Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP (32bit) doesn't crash on either newsletter.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ron Blizzard wrote: (followup on original post from previous reply)> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most > part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes > that take down CentOS, not just Firefox.That is definitely not a firefox bug.> It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can > replicate it as many times as I want by going to... > > http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter > ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there.I've just visited that page and clicked on both links and it works fine. I've even disabled all of my security/privacy extensions on that page and it still works fine. If the page is causing your system to crash, I'd start examining /var/log/messages and your X server log for kernel panics or Oops et al. - -- Mike A. Harris http://mharris.ca | https://twitter.com/mikeaharris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFKX8EE4RNf2rTIeUARAvI6AKCSZr21VFBmQt5lBQnXyViwczTnVQCdE4Fy 76mdyXL42OUPfd0ru4kx+AU=r4pm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----