On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:44:05 -0500, Chris Hammond <chris at 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