On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 14:06 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 05/02/2016 01:46 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
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Anyone else experiencing unstable behaviour of FF 45.1 on C6?
Day it was out I got the same. Since I already had some difficulties with RH6/C6 upgrades changing the way things worked (or didn't, such as telinit), I just did a yum downgrade FF and and kept using my tools as tools.
Well, that update is critical for security, so I would try to help find the issues (we can feed back to RH and help them fix) .. rather than using something with critical security issues to browse the web.
I would like to, but since CentOS got integrated with RH I got the feeling that a non-CentOS problem didn't get help here?
With the upgrade to ... 6.6 I, and others, reported problems with X vs. run-level changes causing issues.
Starting here https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-November/148180.html
Dec 7 2014 bug report: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7972
Nothing happened even though I took the time to post a bug and collect pertinent data and things discovered into a pastebin file with links for everything.
So I made a guess that sans a RH subscription I had no way to pursue a non-CentOS issue.
N.B. I'm operating based on a (faulty?) memory that prior to absorption into RH we used to post bugs on CentOS and someone at CentOS would examine, do whatever else, maybe request more info, and then put a bug (or requesst the reporter to do so?) on RH if appropriate and post tracking # to the list.
That did not happen in this case even though the defect was obviously upstream, some potential causes were identified, based on what I had enough knowledge to investigate, and so I just adapted myself to what I thought the new environment was by not expending time & effort that would lead nowhere.
This was reasonable for me since I had "worked around" the conflict between where X starts up by default and the assumed available VTs in the new-fangled start-up stuff.
In the past I had tried to use the crash reporting thingy that Gnome provides, but I never had a clue where/how to send that stuff.
As far as the security concerns, I'm a careful user and seldom "click through" on things I don't recognize in e-mails or browsers. That's given me decent results for over a decade now.
I have it easier than many of you folks since I don't admin anything but my own self-built & configured LAN behind an IPCop box and have only a few users: me, myself and I. And my wife & relatives might use my WAP to get to the net on the IPhones & such.
Some things that can help here:
- A site where you always get a crash.
That would be tough - when I open FF it's on five desktops with multiple tabs open to myltiple sites in each instance.
I can say this though. It acted the same on two CentOS-6.7 fully updated (identically) boxes (different hardware) that open (mostly) different sets of tabs. But in both cases there's some similarity in that sites with javascript and on which server-provided java applications (my boxes are fully updated with the latest "official" java plugins) are activated early (Investorshub, part of the Advfn financial services network).
ISTR that's where the crash happened in each case as I RealVNC into the secondary box to ran the java app in the browser and display results on my primary unit.
- If you also have access to RHEL-6, test the firefox from RHEL-6 on
the same site to verify if this is a RHEL or CentOS issue.
Don't have RH subscription or installation.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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Thanks for responding, Bill