On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 17:09 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 4:34 PM, William L. Maltby > <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > Looks like Firefox may be getting another update soon, if my problem is > > not atypical. Prior to the latest, had NP for *months*. Anyone else > > seeing any problems? > > I've had FF running on my CentOS 4 desktop for a little over 2 days > now, continuously, with no problems. However, I *don't* have the JRE > package installed, and I use the centosplus kernel. I've dropped back to the previous kernel to see if that makes a difference, based on what I saw in the google results I mentioned in my second post. IIRC, with the previous kernel *and* prev FF, I'd had some issues, but never a panic. I'd been looking forward to a new FF, thinking that would fix things. Symptoms were a "slow freeze" when I had lots of things running on a Gnome desktop (two sets of mail, FF, gnome terminal for two users - 1 native via login, the other "su -" invoked, multiple tabs in FF and terminal, and several OO spreadsheets). Doing a C&P operation would sometimes result in severe lack of responsiveness from that point on. Might take a half hour until I could even kill things and start anew. Various diags would show no swap use, nothing odd about memory usage, etc. But repainting the workspaces would take a *long* time. Maybe all this was a sign of that bug in a larval stage. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill