[CentOS] Firefox 3.5 Issues

Fri Jul 17 09:21:58 UTC 2009
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>

Mike A. Harris wrote:
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> Ron Blizzard wrote:
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>> I downloaded Firefox 3.5 from the M. Harris site and, for the most
>> part, have had good luck with it. But I have also had hard crashes
>> that take down CentOS, not just Firefox.
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> That is definitely not a firefox bug.
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>> It happened to me twice on eBay (on the same page) -- and now I can
>> replicate it as many times as I want by going to...
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>> http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter
>> ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there.
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> I've just visited that page and clicked on both links and it works fine.
>  I've even disabled all of my security/privacy extensions on that page
> and it still works fine.  If the page is causing your system to crash,
> I'd start examining /var/log/messages and your X server log for kernel
> panics or Oops et al.

Where it happens with me is the i386 build on a Thinkpad T20.
I'll have to check the driver.

It does not happen on my x86_64 running proprietary nvidia driver.