On Jan 8, 2008 9:58 AM, Ben Mohilef <<a href="mailto:benm@dsl-only.net">benm@dsl-only.net</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Shortyl after installing 1.1.7 on my 5.0 (and even since 5.1), I<br>> > noticed that every so often,
<br>> > seemingly at random, although it appears most frequently when I<br>> > click on something that wants<br>> <br>> I have also experienced this problem and characterized it briefly by<br>> unscientific trial and error (FWIW). I found that whenever it dies it is trying
<br>> to open a new window per javascript ALERT or CONFIRM directives. This<br>> happens intermittently and NONrepeatably on both 32 and 64 bit flavours of<br>> 5.1 and no other js commands seem to be related (including whether a
<br>> flash file is or is not being displayed). This started late last year. It was not<br>> so much of a nusiance that I bothered to see what updates coincided with it<br>> then and I would just be guessing if I looked back now.
<br>> <br>> The problem seems to lie in the code by which FF/SM open windows in<br>> those two javascript commands. I run Adblock, noscript, NViIDIA's<br>> proprietary drivers, kde and permissive selinux. Nothing of interest appears
<br>> in /var/log/<anything> or dmesg coincident with the failure.<br>> <br>Interesting - that might explain it, but only if SM uses JS to create its local Save To File or other input windows, which I couldn't say (never looked at the source).
<br><br>I'll keep that in mind.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>mhr<br><br>