On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 12:54:16PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:53:18AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > 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 ... > > This is apparently a widespread bug -- lots of problems with this update in > RHEL4. See: > > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200622> > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200601> fyi, after reading bug 200622, I followed the link to bug 139531, where I found the following workaround: set the MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO environment variable before starting firefox, eg for bash: export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=yes Cheers, Bryan Cardillo Penn Bioinformatics Core University of Pennsylvania