Robert Nichols wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Ron Blizzard wrote:
I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes that take down CentOS, not just Firefox.
It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can replicate it as many times as I want by going to...
http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter
...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there.
FWIW (about $0.0002), Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP (32bit) doesn't crash on either newsletter.
Nor does Firefox 3.5 running on Fedora 11. No problem at all.
+0.0002 ;-)
My suspicion is that it has to do with the language packs, since the same src.rpm built w/o disabling language packs doesn't crash in CentOS 5.3 on either arch.
<body lang="en" dir="ltr">
I wonder if that is what triggers it - IE a crash when FireFox can't find the language pack for "en".
Maybe try fetching the page with wget, removing that, and see what happens?
Also of interest - the mh build gave a Fedora start page, the build I did gave a CentOS start page. Maybe his mock config didn't define the rhel macro, so the build did some thing the Fedora way.