I'm having a problem with Mozilla 1.2.1. I have been using this browser for quite some time but the problem has only started recently. Mozilla crashes(mysteriously disappears - all traces of it) when I try to access certain URLs like:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php
http://www.moderncppdesign.com/book/main.html

The browser crashes consistently while loading these pages. I used to be able to access these URLs using Mozilla before.

I thought that the problem may be with Mozilla so I reinstalled(uninstalled it completely first) it. But the problem still remains. I face this problem under both - Gnome and KDE. Konqueror and other browsers are working perfectly on these pages.

Does anyone have any idea as to what the problem could be or how I could tackle it?

Thanks for your time.
Sumit.

I don't know if perhaps you're very attached to Mozilla 1.2.1 for some reason, but they're already up to 1.5. I'd suggest you upgrade unless you have some specific reason to stick with 1.2.1.

I'm not sure if Mozilla itself is the problem here. I did reinstall it and it makes no difference. And these URLs posed no problems in the past. So, I'm not too sure about whether installing another version would recify the problem.

When I give the command "strace mozilla", this is the output I get:

$strace mozilla

execve("/usr/bin/mozilla", ["mozilla"], [/* 31 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="localhost.localdomain", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80e5b54
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40016000
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=76542, ...}) = 0


So could it have to do with a missing ld.so.preload?

If you run mozilla from a shell and then go to one of these sites does it throw an error message?

When I run Mozilla from a shell, and go to one of these URLs it crashes as described earlier. All instances of Mozilla just disappear - no error messages, no explanations!

I have no problem with those URL with firebird or other browsers

I do not like mozilla 1.2.1 that come with RH9 because the anti-alias fonts are eye-tiring. If you really need it, you may try mv $HOME/.mozilla $HOME/.mozilla.backup . If it doesn't work, try to remove the things in plugin directory.

I would suggest mozilla 1.5, it should solve many problems.

You can also try firebird 0.7, it doesn't need real install. Just extract it to a directory and run MozillaFirebird and it would work. You will need to install flash and java 1.4.2(and link it the plugin).

Tried out your suggestion about removing the stuff from the plugins directory and also moving the files out of .mozilla to another directory.

It didn't work. Do you think installing 1.5 will help? Uninstalling 1.2.1 and then reinstalling it certainly did not help.

If you look at one of my earlier posts on this thread, I have the output of "strace mozilla". It says that it has a problem with locating a file called /etc/ld.so.preload? Could this be the problem? Such a file does not currently exist on my system. I do have /etc/ld.so.cache but not ld.so.preload.

Does anyone have an idea as to which package needs to be reinstalled to have ld.so.preload in /etc?

I had the same exact problems as you, having mozilla just disappear. This was a while back with the same version. I did what codec suggested e.g. "$HOME/.mozilla $HOME/.mozilla.backup" and reinstalled mozilla and it fixed the problem.

I tried it again and reinstalled Mozilla. No luck still.

I'm now planning to download and install 1.5 and then check whether I still have the same problem.

Sumit.

Just installed version 1.5.

Everything seems fine now. Thank you all for you help.

Sumit