im experiencing some web browsing problems on my fresh install of ubuntu that i have never experienced before (with another install of ubuntu hoary and gentoo) i've tried with both firefox and epiphany. some pages wont load and crash my browser, both of which i desperately need to access. one leads to a secure login page, though i have no problem with loading other https pages. anybody have any idea or experience a similar problem? they load fine on other computers and with my install of os x...

If you are using multiple browsers and getting this crash, you may have a data corruption issue and you are just noticing one aspet of it. If you do a "dmesg" does it say anything about fsck scanning on boot, or do you notice anything like momentary freezes?

This may not be the case, but it's the extreme possibility. You may just have a misinstalled java plugin, or something trivial. When you browser crashes, it will leave a data dump or core file. Look for the file in whichever browser you are using, and find out where it puked.

ok, so i seem to have solved the web browsing problem - since im on a ppc arch, there's no macromedia plugin or player or anything like that. however, there is an open source mozilla plug-in that i thought i'd try. THAT is what seems to have been crashing the browser, as both sites use flash.

but before i deduced that, i checked my dmesg and found no problems or hangups. just for good measure i ran 'fsck -y /dev/hda' and got this:
which is a little disturbing. i have ext3 filesystem, but i thought this was supposed to work... seems very odd to me, since everything else seems to be working fine...

You have to specify your partition.. like /dev/hda1 etc.

You could be scanning your swap file for all I know.