Hello Sorry to say this to everyone, but since I installed CentOS 6 a month ago I found that both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird crash big time (meaning every day and even more than once a day) with a large INBOX or newsgroup, or with many tabs open in the Firefox windows. I also keep my work computer running over night usually, maybe this is also a factor. Knode does not do a better job than Thunderbird with the newsgroups, either, it still crashes on large ones. Konqueror too consumes many gigabytes and becomes unresponsive if I have many tabs open and keep it running over night. I got pan newsreader though, and it is very nice with a 126000-articles a newsgroup (like on CentOS.general :)! And that reporting tool that pops up every time says it can not upload the crash report (because it does not have some valid URL or something)... Is there a nice way to downgrade Mozilla Firefox to say version 4 or 5 please ? And something similar for Thunderbird ? Thank you, Timothy Madden
On 05/28/2012 07:03 AM, Timothy Madden wrote:> Hello > > Sorry to say this to everyone, but since I installed CentOS 6 a month ago > I found that both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird crash big time > (meaning every day and even more than once a day) with a large INBOX or > newsgroup, or with many tabs open in the Firefox windows. I also keep my > work computer running over night usually, maybe this is also a factor. >This isn't the answer to your question, but you might consider downloading the generic FireFox and Thunderbird from mozilla.org. Beta versions 13 of both packages run w/o problem on my CentOS 6 system. Just unpack the tar file into /usr/local and run from there. -- Tim Evans, TKEvans.com, Inc. | 5 Chestnut Court UNIX System Admin Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 http://www.come-here.com/News/ | tkevans at tkevans.com
On 05/28/2012 12:03 PM, Timothy Madden wrote:> Sorry to say this to everyone, but since I installed CentOS 6 a month ago > I found that both Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird crash big time > (meaning every day and even more than once a day) with a large INBOX or > newsgroup, or with many tabs open in the Firefox windows. I also keep my > work computer running over night usually, maybe this is also a factor.My thunderbird mailbox's size clocks in at just over 38GB, and I dont see this problem at all. My desktop has an uptime for just under 7 months ( yes, I know - older kernel is running, but the s/w updates are run every week ) A better and more productive use of your time might be to try and workout what is causing the issue - its almost certainly going to be an external issue, and not tbird for ffox themselves. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc