On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 23:01 -0500, Barry Brimer wrote:
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:09:30PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 7/29/06, Barry Brimer lists@brimer.org wrote:
I installed the new firefox 1.5.0.5 packages and had a few issues. I had read a similar post on the nahant list. I would doubt that this is a centos-induced problem. The browser crashed when opening the extensions manager and also with a very simple webmail page.
If you upgraded directly from 1.0.8 to to 1.5.0.5, you probably need to reinstall all of your extensions. I recommend (1) write down what all of them are, (2) uninstall them all from your present firefox 1.0.8, (3) upgrade to 1.5.0.5, and finally (4) install extensions again.
Even upgrading from 1.5.0.2 (centosplus) to 1.5.0.5, I'd recommend reinstalling extensions. In my experience firefox always crashes on the first -- and sometimes also second and third -- launches after an upgrade when there are any extensions present.
No problema here upgrading from 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.5. No crashes, extensions working fine and all else.
I have created a new user on my system, which of course will build a new firefox profile, with no extensions. I have also moved the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.old and I have opened the browser with no themes, extensions, or plugins. Attempts to access the extensions manager or multiple Horde webmail systems cause the browser to crash.
I have launched firefox with strace and cleared the screen before trying to access the extensions menu.
Make sure to run firefox as root once (I usually do that first, after the upgrade).
See if that helps ...
I tried running firefox as root once, and then again with my user and my test user. Both still exhibit the same problem.