Has anyone else noticed that firefox is less stable after the recent security update? I'm getting several occurrences per day of "just goes poof," i.e. probably seg fault.
Collins Richey wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that firefox is less stable after the recent security update? I'm getting several occurrences per day of "just goes poof," i.e. probably seg fault.
I've noticed this on WinXP as well. Not only does it go poof, but sometimes it just decides to hang, stare at it's own navel, and gobble up 99% of the cpu time.
Cheers,
C
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Collins Richey wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that firefox is less stable after the recent security update? I'm getting several occurrences per day of "just goes poof," i.e. probably seg fault.
I've noticed this on WinXP as well. Not only does it go poof, but sometimes it just decides to hang, stare at it's own navel, and gobble up 99% of the cpu time.
Cheers,
C
Having this exact same hanging issue. It was doing it constantly but the problem seems to have stopped. Probal shouldn't have said that as it will probably start again. :)
Chris
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:44:05 -0500, Chris Hammond chris@tac.esi.net wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Collins Richey wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that firefox is less stable after the recent security update? I'm getting several occurrences per day of "just goes poof," i.e. probably seg fault.
I've noticed this on WinXP as well. Not only does it go poof, but sometimes it just decides to hang, stare at it's own navel, and gobble up 99% of the cpu time.
Cheers,
C
Having this exact same hanging issue. It was doing it constantly but the problem seems to have stopped. Probal shouldn't have said that as it will probably start again. :)
Can you start with a clean profile? If your machine is configured normally:
firefox --profilemanager
Make a new profile and use that one. If you get the problem to continue, then it's a real problem. If it goes away, then your profile got corrupted. This commonly happens during upgrades between firefox versions, especially when you have themes, extesions, configuration settings setup.
Greg
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:00:36 -0700, Greg Knaddison greg.knaddison@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:44:05 -0500, Chris Hammond chris@tac.esi.net wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Collins Richey wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that firefox is less stable after the recent security update? I'm getting several occurrences per day of "just goes poof," i.e. probably seg fault.
I've noticed this on WinXP as well. Not only does it go poof, but sometimes it just decides to hang, stare at it's own navel, and gobble up 99% of the cpu time.
Cheers,
C
Having this exact same hanging issue. It was doing it constantly but the problem seems to have stopped. Probal shouldn't have said that as it will probably start again. :)
Can you start with a clean profile? If your machine is configured normally:
firefox --profilemanager
Make a new profile and use that one. If you get the problem to continue, then it's a real problem. If it goes away, then your profile got corrupted. This commonly happens during upgrades between firefox versions, especially when you have themes, extesions, configuration settings setup.
Hmmm! Worth a try.
On Apr 1, 2005 11:53 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:00:36 -0700, Greg Knaddison
Can you start with a clean profile? If your machine is configured normally:
firefox --profilemanager
Make a new profile and use that one. If you get the problem to continue, then it's a real problem. If it goes away, then your profile got corrupted. This commonly happens during upgrades between firefox versions, especially when you have themes, extesions, configuration settings setup.
Hmmm! Worth a try.
Any feed back on how you've gone with a new profile? Seems I'm seeing the same 'poof' issue.... reading a webpage than Wham! There she goes!
On Apr 6, 2005 1:22 AM, Matt Bottrell mbottrell@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 1, 2005 11:53 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:00:36 -0700, Greg Knaddison
Can you start with a clean profile? If your machine is configured normally:
firefox --profilemanager
Make a new profile and use that one. If you get the problem to continue, then it's a real problem. If it goes away, then your profile got corrupted. This commonly happens during upgrades between firefox versions, especially when you have themes, extesions, configuration settings setup.
Hmmm! Worth a try.
Any feed back on how you've gone with a new profile? Seems I'm seeing the same 'poof' issue.... reading a webpage than Wham! There she goes!
Well, I preserved my bookmarks and whacked the .mozilla directory. Since then Firefox has not gone "poof". Maybe that's the answer, but I find it strange that I need to do this on a dot.release upgrade.
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 06:17 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
On Apr 6, 2005 1:22 AM, Matt Bottrell mbottrell@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 1, 2005 11:53 AM, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:00:36 -0700, Greg Knaddison
Can you start with a clean profile? If your machine is configured normally:
firefox --profilemanager
Make a new profile and use that one. If you get the problem to continue, then it's a real problem. If it goes away, then your profile got corrupted. This commonly happens during upgrades between firefox versions, especially when you have themes, extesions, configuration settings setup.
Hmmm! Worth a try.
Any feed back on how you've gone with a new profile? Seems I'm seeing the same 'poof' issue.... reading a webpage than Wham! There she goes!
Well, I preserved my bookmarks and whacked the .mozilla directory. Since then Firefox has not gone "poof". Maybe that's the answer, but I find it strange that I need to do this on a dot.release upgrade.
This is a common issue when upgrading any mozilla product (mozilla, firefox, or thunderbird) ... and removing your profile is almost always the first thing recommended any time there is a problem after an upgrade. It is especially true if you have added any extensions to the mozilla products.
A good place for firefox help is: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38
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