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Old 07-22-2005, 06:42 PM   #1
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firefox 1.0.6 crashes in sid


After a dist-upgrade yesterday, I've got firefox upgraded to 1.0.6 and since then, I get constant crashes on a variety of sites. I am thinking that maybe some plugins don't work any more for some reason. But is anyone seeing that ?

Try www.independent.co.uk
 
Old 07-22-2005, 09:00 PM   #2
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no crashes here bet it was something else in the update
 
Old 07-23-2005, 02:43 AM   #3
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Same here. And that site you linked works fine as well.
 
Old 07-23-2005, 09:36 PM   #4
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That site has a lot of javascript, but I didn't see any flash, which usually is the culprit if the plugin's not installed properly (but check that).
 
Old 07-26-2005, 12:17 AM   #5
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i have noticed the same problem...i went to play a flash game the same day of an apt-get upgrade and discovered that firefox and mozilla would crash and close. so i re-installed the plugins for flash from macromedia and i still got the same resaults..... i don't know what the problem is. i have since reformated my system and am starting from anew. when i install again i will let you know the resaults, but i seriously believe it is the flash that is the no no here.
 
Old 07-26-2005, 03:16 AM   #6
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I had this problem after installing xorg on debian some months ago from the ubuntu repositories.
Apparently, after a lot of searching forums, it turns out it is some sort of conflict with xorg and the flash plugin, if you happen to have galeon. try that because for me it had the same problem.
There is a script you can use to start firefox which stops the problem or you could remove the flash plugin from the firefox directory if that is the problem.
In fact, maybe move the flash plugin temporararily to see if that is the cause and I will try to find the script for firefox.
 
Old 07-26-2005, 12:42 PM   #7
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Got Kanotix, but it uses sid repositories to upgrade. Firefox 1.0.6 crashes here as well. I install nvidia driver to while I was upgrading so that may cause some problems. Crashed while viewing linuxquestions. I will try to downgrade firefox or use konqueror until the bug is fixed.
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Old 07-26-2005, 01:58 PM   #8
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Firefox/1.0.6 (Debian package 1.0.6-1)

Plugins (8)

* Helix DNA Plugin: RealPlayer G2 Plug-In Compatible
* QuickTime Plug-in 6.0, Windows Media Player Plugin are supported by mplayerplug-in
* DjVuLibre-3.5.14
* Shockwave Flash
* MozPlugger 1.7.1
* VLC multimedia plugin
* Adobe Reader 7.0
* Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_06-b03

Perhaps it is the version of Flash or Java. You can try running firefox in Safemode to see if that is the problem. If it does not crash while in Safemode it is one of the following: extension, plugin, theme that is causing problems.

I have Firefox 1.0.6 on both Debian sid, Ubuntu and I am having no problems on either.
 
Old 07-26-2005, 02:51 PM   #9
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I'm running 64 bit, so there is no flash version running. How do you run in safe mode? Maybe the 64 bit version has some problems.
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Old 07-27-2005, 10:26 AM   #10
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i just got done cleaning my system on the massive level (re-format) and have decided to work with sarge for a while. when i get home i will install the flash player plugin and see what that gets me. i did notice that when the plugin was removed and i would go to a site that would crash (when the plugin was installed) firefox would behave. but re-installing the plugin and going back to the same site would make it crash again. i am not using xorg this time so i will test when i get home and report the resaults.
 
Old 07-27-2005, 11:09 AM   #11
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On Linux, you can go to your Terminal and run:

/path/to/firefox/firefox -safe-mode

What works for me is usr/bin/firefox -safe-mode

Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox is rarely the fix for any problems Firefox might be having.
Make sure you have the latest versions of Flash and Java.
You can check the plugins you have installed by typing about:plugins in the address/location bar.
If the problem is with Firefox then try running Firefox in Safe Mode
If all is well, you have a "bad" theme or extension that needs updating, replacement or removal.
Tools Menu -> Extensions Dialog, each extension can be individually disabled using its right-click/context menu.
Disable individual extensions until you find the one that causes problems. Uninstall it.
Tool>Themes>uninstall follow the same steps as a bad extension
If the problem still exists it could be a bad profile in which case you need to Create a new profile.
You can "restore" most of the information from your old profile to your new one.
Restore your profile
These are the important files you might want to save:

# bookmarks.html Bookmarks.
# prefs.js Current user preferences.
# user.js User-added preferences (overrides prefs.js every startup).
# cookies.txt Cookies.
# hostperm.1 Cookies permissions, image permissions, and extension website install permissions list.
# signons.txt Saved passwords. Requires the "key3.db" file to work.
# key3.db Supplements password file.
# userChrome.css, userContent.css
 
Old 07-27-2005, 02:24 PM   #12
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well i think i have the answer....

i believe that it is a combination of xorg, flashplayer (ver 7 from macromedia), mozilla-firefox 1.0.6-1 where xorg and firefox are from the sid archives. i have reverted to xfree86 and have not had a problem. i am planning on upgrading xfree and testing from there
further updates pending.

right now i have xfree from sarge, firefox from etch and flashplayer plugin 7 from macromedia
 
Old 07-27-2005, 07:33 PM   #13
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I tried safe mode. Still crashes. It says 'Segmentation fault'. I also run xfree86.
I think everything is from sid.
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Old 07-29-2005, 09:00 AM   #14
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Do you have firefox or the profile in a read only partition by any chance?
 
Old 07-29-2005, 09:16 AM   #15
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Quote:
Originally posted by joesbox
well i think i have the answer....

i believe that it is a combination of xorg, flashplayer (ver 7 from macromedia), mozilla-firefox 1.0.6-1 where xorg and firefox are from the sid archives. i have reverted to xfree86 and have not had a problem. i am planning on upgrading xfree and testing from there
further updates pending.

right now i have xfree from sarge, firefox from etch and flashplayer plugin 7 from macromedia
I was using xfree when I noticed the problem.... It doesn't happen that much anymore now. But I am using konkeror a lot more I must admit....
 
  


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