Mozilla Firefox quits when visiting certain sites, no error message given
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Mozilla Firefox quits when visiting certain sites, no error message given
I'm having a strange problem with Mozilla Firefox 0.8. When visiting certain websites (the ones I've specifically noted are instapundit.com, slashdot.org, and denbeste.nu), Firefox just quits. For some of the sites (such as instapundit.com), it gives a message 'Can't resolve host name "localhost"!' before quitting, but in other cases, it just silently quits. This is especially vexing because it just recently started happening, for no reason that I can tell. (It happened at the same time that all of my KDE fonts changed, also for no apparent reason, although I have no idea how that could be related.)
Has anyone else experienced this? I tried reinstalling Firefox, but I'm getting the same thing. Interestingly, when I run Firefox as root, this doesn't happen. (Although I do still get the 'can't resolve host name' remark.) Could some personal setting I tripped be causing this? Anyone have any idea what?
running Arch Linux, and have the same piece of problem..altough it's not that common, I've only experienced it a few times now. but still, it has happened and I guess it will continue to happen, for a reason I don't know...
I've thought it has something to do with the content on the page, perhaps with some plugins. I don't have any java plugin installed yet, because I haven't needed one..I thought it might be that the plugin might cause this, but I'm not so sure anymore, because last time the page shouldn't have had any java inside, but still Firefox "died".
have you tried running firefox started from terminal, to see if that gives errors? or checked your logfiles? I haven't yet...
Ok, weirdly enough, the problem was the font 'serif' -- when I changed it to something else, the problem I've been experiencing went away. (Does anyone know why this caused a problem for my user account, and not for root?)
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