On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:38:27 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
Your desktop is crashing, not the entire machine.
Try renaming ~/.mozilla to something else, then run firefox and see if it still crashes.
Ah, that makes sense that the "os" isn't crashing, but that the "Desktop" is.
I tried with Chrome, and, guess what? No crash.
Then I uninstalled Firefox & the Tor Browser Bundle (TBB), both of which use Firefox, and I removed the ~/.mozilla directory. $ sudo yum remove firefox
I re-installed Firefox, and it crashed the desktop again: $ sudo yum install firefox
So, now I'm using Chrome (but I prefer Firefox). I must admit I had Firefox honed for protection, with noscript, ghostery, user-agent switcher, dns-flusher, etc.
So, maybe those addons were causing the problem (but I did not add anything recently).
QUESTION: Is there a Desktop crash log somewhere?