Firefox 3.0.3 Random Crashes

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I’m running Suse 10.3 and KDE 3.5. Acer Power FH series Pentium D, 3 Ghz, 1 Gb Ram, Intel 946 video.

The system is stable except for a problem with Firefox 3.0.3 - Firefox will be working normally, then disappear from the screen as if you shut it down. Starting it back up and using “restore session” gets it back, but I can’t figure out why its shutting down in the first place.

There is nothing in the system logs, and running Firefox from a terminal window generates no error messages. Everything else is working normally.

Any ideas where else to look in troubleshooting this?

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Has it only just started happening? Think if you have changed FF in any way - ie; extensions added recently?

You say random: So you must mean it’s doesn’t seem related to any particular aspect of browsing?

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No, no changes to FF, not even any updates for the extensions.

Random is just that: it shut down on my while reading the forums here earlier, and another board before that. Happened a couple of times yesterday also. Flash, etc. doesn’t seem to affect it one way or another, like on MSNBC, Fox, etc.

Guess I’ll keep “testing” and see what else it does.

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You could clear cache etc…

Also worth a try is to rename the .mozilla folder in your hidden /home/user

to say.OLDmozilla

start FF. It should be like you never ran it before

see if the problem persists

you can always bring back your OLD folder

Might help isolate the problem

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Do you use the FF from the ‘Mozilla’-repository or from the FF-homepage? I recommend the first.

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:expressionless: Handy kostenlos aufladen!

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I’m using the Mozilla repo.

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Did all of the above. FF has behaved since then, but I’m going to wait a bit before saying the problem is solved. It hasn’t shutdown on me since earlier this evening.

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Using

firefox -P

…is an easier way of setting up a new profile and still keeping the old one. Just a hint.

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Firefox seems to be stable now after re-creating the profile. Something in there must have gotten corrupted, but its been running for over 18 hours now with no crashes. Still no errors in the system logs that I can find. Weird.

Must be “Linux Voodoo” :slight_smile:

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I have very recently installed flash 10 and have had no further problems since that time. I had been experiencing hangs and crashes about every thirty minutes prior to the installation of flash 10. I got it directly from the flash site and uninstalled flash 9.3 to complete the install. I have also unchecked the top three boxes in the edit>preferences>security choices in Firefox 3.03. Good luck.

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Can we soon expect Flash 10 to be added to packman?

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Nope, packman never provided the Flash-Player, since it’s not open source. It should be provided by the ‘update’-repository, though, since it also contains updates of ‘non-oss’-packages.

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you need to get rid of libflashsupport when ff crashes
i had the same thing :

zypper rm libflashsupport

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Um… I recommend a little patience until the new Flash-version will be added to ‘update’… why the hurry?

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if you had this problem you’d understand what it does on your nerves :wink:

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I’d rather simply disable Flash completely… oopsey, that would mean no YouTube as well…

Okay, I understand, but I’m sure you understand my concerns as well.

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The OP ‘walla299’
Solved the issue.
I’m running bit 32 and 64 bit platforms and neither suffer any flash issues. Though I never visit YouTube.
Why are you installing Flash outside that provided by the suse updates?

I’m not sure disabling Flash altogether is a profitable solution, though I suspect ‘gropiuskalle’ has tongue in cheek saying this.

I suggest you work through the issue by process of elimination - just using the suse provided Flash.
Temporarily creating a new user account can often provide insight into issues like this.

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I’m not sure disabling Flash altogether is a profitable solution, though I suspect ‘gropiuskalle’ has tongue in cheek saying this.

Me? Noooooo… :smiley:

Seriously, caf4926s of trying to narrow the problem down to the actual source is a very good one - that might take time, but will provide a real solution instead of workarounds with packages not coming from openSUSE.

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From the firefox mozilla magazine forum I found 2 possible fixes for this and I have applied both and found success. First, go to Tools>Adblock+Options and untick Show tabs on Flash and Java. Second, uninstall Forecast Fox, if installed. That did it for me. Not a problem with Firefox since.:slight_smile: