[CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

[Michael Simpson]

On 10/16/08, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:47 +0100, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote:
> > sbeam wrote:
> > > does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5?
> > >
> > > ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I
> > ><snip>
>
> > Sorry to hear this, but I use Firefox 3.0.2 daily and I don't have any
> > of these problems. For me works fine.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Marcelo
> >
> > Centos 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5)
> > firefox-3.0.2-3.el5.centos
>
> Ditto here. Have you run an "rpm --verify" to see if you have corruption
> problems? Have you mixed installs from (possibly conflicting) repos? I
> suspect one of those two. Have you checked your hardware (memtest,
> etc.)? If the system is haeavily loaded, have you checked to see if it's
> a heat related problem?
>
> > <snip sig stuff>

I run FF3 on CentOS 5.2 on a 9yr old laptop (256MB ram p3 processor
16GB SSD) with no problems whatsoever (other than my partners orange
webmail maxing out the cpu with their ads)

mike