I have noticed recently that Firefox does have some minor bugs but they are more pronounced in Gentoo. In Windows and Debian I have installed it and it works all right, but in Gentoo, I used emerge to download the sources and compile it. Maybe this has something to do with this? I am using version 1.0.2 current in all three: Debian, Gentoo and Windows.

It seems to have some (minor) random bugs. It always crashes the first time I run it after booting and sometimes it just stops responding when I start it and then crashes after a long time of inactivity.

Random crashes happen in Gentoo only. I don't know why. In Debian though it doesn't crash much, if at all.

I use KDE as my in both OSes.

Anybody else experiencing minor problems with Firefox in Gentoo? By the way I had installed 1.0.1 initially in Gentoo and then upgraded to 1.0.2 and the problem is still not gone.

it may have to do with you compiling it yourself.

try emerging firefox-bin

and use the binary one that gentoo pre-packaged.

Thanks. I'll remove the firefox package and install the firefox-bin package.

That is smaller in size as well.

I may be too late for you, but I have recently installed Gentoo.
I used the command "emerge mozilla-firefox". I honestly don't know when Firefox has been more stable or faster. I also use it in Windows and in Slackware, and both seem to be a bit slow on start-up.
The emerge went quickly and smoothly.

what are the CFLAGS you compiled with? the mozilla team warns against going outside the default optimizing.....

Just used the CFLAGS that Gentoo wrote during install.

I just did #emerge -s firefox, and #emerge -p mozilla-firefox, then emerged the files that it returned.

Man, don't take my word as gospel, this is my first time with a usable Gentoo system.

Just wanted to let you know what had worked for me.

Post your /etc/make.conf or post the output of 'emerge info'.

No problem, but it will be several hours, because I'm still at work until 19:00 CDT and I don't have my ssh working yet. I'll do that as soon as I get home.

Here is my make.conf file that you requested. Just for your info. I performed a stage 3 install.
The only things that I added were USE flags and sync mirrors and MAKEOPTS per the install instructions.




# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
USE="x86 acpi dvd cdr -gnome"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

So far, I've learnt to put up with the Gentoo issue with Firefox.

I've not booted into Gentoo for quite a while now (this post is made from Gentoo) and I've a lot of upgrading to do.

My make.conf file (if it helps):