K first, the kdevelop question:
How do you switch what gcc version to compile with? I am using mandrake 10, which has v3.3 or something installed, I want to use v2.96 but kdevelop always uses the first version installed. I can't remove v3.3 or whatever because so many libraries require it. So can someone tell me how to change what gcc version kdevelop uses, or make the gcc/g++ point to the 2.96 version instead?

and mozilla question(s)
I have been having trouble with crashes with mozilla. I am using mozilla 1.6, and it crashes, often. After anywhere from 10 seconds to 2 hours of mozilla running, it will just close. No messages or anything. I think the same happens with firefox (haven't used it as much - but when i do use it it crashes too, not sure how often hough). Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it? Any help on this is appreciated, I like mozilla and would really like it working properly.
Mozilla also occasionally freezes for a few seconds - not really a huge problem, but its irritating. I don't thinks its my computer (AMD Athlon 2500+, 512 mb ram, radeon 9200 128mb). It's probably related to the constant crashes.... So once agian, any help is appreciated.

thanks in advance.

To use an older version of gcc, you can always create a link to the old gcc file in the /usr/bin directory by using ln -s location_of_old_gcc /usr/bin/gcc. If you have a newer version of gcc, it'll also be in the /usr/bin folder. Make sure you rename the newer version of the file before creating the link.

As for mozilla, I'm not sure. Do any of your other programs crash? If not, try installing a newer version of mozilla. I haven't worked with mozilla 1.6. I went directly from 1.4 to 1.7.

The only other application which I have noticed crashing (or atleast i've seen crash more then once or twice) is the package manager, rpmdrake. It doesn't crash often though, so I'd say its mainly just mozilla.

I'll try updating mozilla, see if that fixes anything.

*edit:
changing the link for gcc works, sort of. It reads the right version, but kdevelop crashes when running configure and automake.

Surprising. The only thing I can think of is a hardware problem (I might be wrong though). Both mozilla and package managers/installers use the memory and hard drive heavily. But, still, the applications should just hang until the harddrive catches up; it shouldn't crash - or, the whole computer should crash. BTW, can you run top or some such application, and find out how much unused memory you have after you lauch mozilla? Also, try reducing the cache size for mozilla/firefox from the default 50MB to say, 5MB or so. That might help.

Mozilla was taking average of 5.5% of my memory according to top.
with mozilla not running, I have about 80 mb of free memory, and with it running, i have aabout 72-75mb.

How do I adjust the cache size for mozilla?


and one more thing:
I've got about 40 instances of wine-preloader runningt that aren't responding to kill. anyone know how to kill them without rebooting?