recently had to restore firefox (rpm install firefox), and ever since when using the kde interface firefox hangs the terminal session, if i use gnome, firefox run ok.. in the kde interface the browser konquerer works fine ?

oel 5.8 64 bit...

search "yum" for the firefox-kde integration

if installed remove it

also what version of oracle's "unbreakable Linux" is this ?
5.9 or 6.3 or 6.4

and what version of Firefox ?
the very very old firefox 3.6 in the 5.9 repos is unsupported

also you might want to install the offical firefox 19.02 tar bal
--- 32 bit USA English ---
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/re...ux-i686/en-US/

64 bit

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/re...-x86_64/en-US/

i thought i answered this, but i guess i forgot to hit post reply,

firefox-kde integration is not installed

we are on oel 5.8 kernel 2.6.32-300.39.5.el5uek..

firefox version is 17.0.3

this version works when i use the gnome interface.

i recently sent this information to oracle:

[root@BANJOBS ~]# mozilla-plugin-config -l
EXCLUDE_WRAP:
libtotem*
libjavaplugin*
gecko-mediaplayer*
mplayerplug-in*
librhythmbox*
packagekit*
libnsISpicec*
EXCLUDE_LINK:

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_64_64.libflashplayer.so
Original plugin: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Wrapper version string: X (1.3.0)
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped/nswrapper_64_64.libflashplayer.so
Original plugin: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Wrapper version string: X (1.3.0)

[root@BANJOBS ~]# rpm -qa *xulrun* *firefox* *mozilla* *flash* *plugin*
flash-plugin-11.1.102.55-release
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.20-3.0.1.el5_3
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.9-1.el5_3.2
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-9.el5
firefox-17.0.3-1.0.1.el5_9
xulrunner-17.0.3-2.0.1.el5_9
setroubleshoot-plugins-2.0.4-2.el5
xulrunner-17.0.3-2.0.1.el5_9
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.20-3.0.1.el5_3
firefox-17.0.3-1.0.1.el5_9
nspluginwrapper-1.3.0-9.el5
---------------------------------

Ok
so Oracle's 5.8 64 bit
But using the 32 bit older firefox 17 ( 19.0.2 is current)
and using the 32 bit plugins in the nswrapper


so the logging into KDE4 desktop is locking up once ff is started
but logging into the Gnome2 desktop is not freezing

This is the same non root user in both kde and gnome ,on your desktop install ?

is there anything in the logs ?
/var/log/massages

and in your normal user home folder
~/.xsession-errors

when logging in as another user in the kde environment, other than root, firefox doesn't freeze ???

oracle asked me to install strace and then firefox froze when i did an strace firefox and
these were the entries in the /var/log/messages file at the time of the freeze:
Mar 27 08:42:41 BANJOBS gconfd (banner-22795): starting (version 2.14.0), piMar 27 08:26:56 BANJOBS yum: Installed: strace-4.5.18-18.el5.x86_64
Mar 27 08:27:00 BANJOBS avahi-daemon[5779]: Invalid query packet.
Mar 27 08:27:39 BANJOBS last message repeated 15 times
Mar 27 08:28:43 BANJOBS last message repeated 8 times
Mar 27 08:29:52 BANJOBS last message repeated 23 times
Mar 27 08:30:58 BANJOBS last message repeated 18 times
Mar 27 08:32:33 BANJOBS avahi-daemon[5779]: Invalid query packet.
Mar 27 08:32:34 BANJOBS last message repeated 4 times
Mar 27 08:32:37 BANJOBS avahi-daemon[5779]: Invalid response packet from host 10.2.2.137.
Mar 27 08:32:37 BANJOBS avahi-daemon[5779]: Invalid response packet from host 10.2.3.149.
Mar 27 08:33:34 BANJOBS automount[5389]: create_tcp_client:341: hostname lookup failed: Unknown server error
Mar 27 08:33:34 BANJOBS automount[5389]: create_udp_client:101: hostname lookup failed: Unknown server error
Mar 27 08:33:34 BANJOBS automount[5389]: get_exports: lookup(hosts): exports lookup failed for .directory
Mar 27 08:33:34 BANJOBS automount[5389]: key ".directory" not found in map source(s).
Mar 27 08:33:34 BANJOBS automount[5389]: key ".directory" not found in map source(s).
Mar 27 08:35:25 BANJOBS avahi-daemon[5779]: Invalid query packet.
Mar 27 08:36:02 BANJOBS last message repeated 16 times
Mar 27 08:37:14 BANJOBS last message repeated 3 times
Mar 27 08:38:16 BANJOBS last message repeated 40 times
Mar 27 08:39:50 BANJOBS last message repeated 2 times
Mar 27 08:40:51 BANJOBS last message repeated 21 times
Mar 27 08:41:27 BANJOBS last message repeated 2 times
Mar 27 08:42:41 BANJOBS gconfd (banner-22795): starting (version 2.14.0), pid 22795 user 'banner'

running firefox as root , might have something to do with this

you really do NOT want to use the gui as root
and you really , really do not want to run firefox as root


it looks like kde is crashing ,when starting firefox as root

a question
How are you starting KDE as login ?
-- using the menu under the login

type in your non root user name
select KDE from the options
and type in the non root user password
hit enter

start firefox as a non root user

then to test is ff is working as root ( a very bad idea , and not recommended )
--- as a normal user ---
also you might want to install the current ff
17 is two versions out of date

unless Oracle removed the "Auto update"
ff should auto install and auto update to 19.0.2

to check
launch FF as a normal user
click on "help" then "about firefox"

the version should be listed , and if it there is an update to install

if not and Oracle did disable the auto update

in ff
"edit" / then "preferences" then the " Advanced " tab
then in the " Advanced " tab select the "update" tab
and put a check in "automatically install updates "

restart firefox