[CentOS] problem with firefox

[Michael A. Peters]

Florin Andrei wrote:
>
> I've heard a lot of complaints from Firefox/CentOS users. I never used
> CentOS as a desktop OS, so I can't confirm those issues from my own
> experience. 
I experienced a LOT of crashing with FireFox 2 in Fedora 8 but almost 
none using the tarball version in Fedora Core 6 - in Fedora 8 - I blame 
the new-ness of the libraries it links against (that tarball version 
doesn't)

Rebuild of Fedora 8 src.rpm in CentOS 5 is also not as stable as the 
tarball version (I ran tarball version in CentOS 5) but is far more 
stable than Fedora 8 version in Fedora 8.

Unfortunately I can't use the firefox distributed tarball version 
because it links against an older libstdc++ which breaks the totem and 
icedtea plugins.

It would be sweet if upstream firefox would distribute a compiled 
tarball that links against the newer libstdc++