I am having a small problem with my mozilla firefox browser on my RHEL 3 machine. The browser just closes itself for no apparent reason.

Any suggestions? --Mufy

I don't have an answer, but Firefox started unexpectedly crashing, or closing with no help from me, yesterday--repeatedly. And so did Thunderbird. And it's still happening. I haven't made any changes in my system. No viruses, etc. detected...?

Firefox does restore the session successfully each time after it crashes. And Thunderbird acts normal for a while, and I haven't lost any email data that I know of.

Before yesterday, I'd have a crash maybe once a month. Now it's several times a day.

for both of you:
run firefox / thunderbird from a konsole / xterm / whatever cli tool you like the most, and when it crashes, post back here the lines it has outputted on the console.. Otherwise its pretty much shooting in the dark trying to guess whats happening..

I hope I'm not guilty of double-posting. I forgot about getting into this thread, and opened one in Linux General when gkrellm along with Firefox and T'bird began crashing over and over.

The error message I get on both T'bird and Firefox is:

/home/jon/thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 4740 segmentation fault "$prog"${1+"$@"}

(the same for Firefox only referring to the Firefox directory)

Sorry I forgot about posting here. Really distracted by dozens of failures an hour...

Welwell.. A segfault is realy the nastiest error one can get..

From where have you installed firefox? rpm(where from?) / source / binary from mozilla org?
If I were you, id try reinstalling it.. Have you done any major modifications in your system / firefox lately, like updated gnome / kde, glibc, kernel or something like that?

I installed both Firefox and Thunderbird from the installers made available on the Mozilla sites for each. Have not had any trouble in the months since installing, till last couple of days.

I installed over 300 Megabytes of updates from MandrakeLinux following a fresh install of 10.1 OE after a major system crash a couple of weeks ago, but again had completely normal operations till a couple of days ago.

I haven't made any modifications to gnome, glibc, or the kernel or anything else that I would expect to cause program crashes--in fact, no modifications at all between when all was working normally and then those three apps began to crash repeatedly. It's like it started out of the blue.