fred smith wrote: > Firefox does this to me quite frequently, and it always has. every new > release they say they've improved the stability, but it hasn't made > any improvement for me in terms of this issue. > > I recently downloaded the firefox source and did my own build, just to > see if the failures might have been due to some small incompatibility > between the target system the official binaries are built for, and my > box. Sad to say that while it may not die as often, it still does it. > This doesn't answer the original poster's question, but.... As far as Firefox is concerned you might want to try giving 3.0b2 a try. I found it to be significantly more stable than the 1.5.X branch under Winders and on various Macs (haven't gotten around to trying it on a CentOS 5.X desktop box yet). Best,