At Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:23:18 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > 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. > > 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... > > http://wiki.centos.org/Newsletter > > ...and choosing one of the two newsletters, linked there. > > I'm writing for a couple reasons. > > I'm curious to see if this is only my problem, or if other have > experienced it or can replicate it. I have heard about various problems people over in MS-Windows land have had with Firefox 3.5. It appears that FF 3.5 is not quite ready for production systems. > > And I was also wondering how I can remove Firefox 3.5 and its > associated support files and get back to the regular repository. rpm -hUv --oldpackage firefox-3.0.10-<mumble>.i386.rpm Were there other dependcies? If so, you may have roll them back too. > > Firefox 3.5, for the most part, is very stable and is snappier than > 3.0.11 -- only two sites have pages have crashed for me, but when it > crashes it takes down my whole system and that's not good. > > And, if someone could mention this on the forum (there is a thread > about Firefox 3.5) I would appreciate it. I can't log on to the > forums. I am supposed to ask for another password, but I can't > remember what my original email address was (2 or 3 years ago). > > Thanks for any pointers. > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/