Just curious if anyone elese has expierenced this issue:

Sometimes when I use Ubuntu applications will mysteriously crash. This is usually confined to GAIM and Firefox. When a window is minimized, or in Firefox's case when a new tab is opened the application can suddenly quit, giving no explanation. It has been a long while since this has happened, but I am just curious if this is just me.

i get this problem with GAIM alot, generally when i restart Fluxbox, it just decides to crash. I load it up in the background of a terminal that I always have open, and it doesn't give me any info at all except a website to report the thing.

Is it Ubuntu specific? Ubuntu is the first distro I have used as my regular desktop, but I have used many other distros as well and never encountered this issue.

Oh yes. I've seen this on multiple boxes. Firefox just dies when trying to open a site. And it kills all instances of Firefox, not just the one being used. If you change the update feature to look for application updates, there is a newer version of Firefox, and after installing that, it seemed to be more stable. I also found the mozilla plugins package and intalled that. I wasn't scientific about the order of these things, so I don't know which was more important, but not having the crashing issue on the same sites as before.