Robert Nichols wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> Ron Blizzard 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. >>> >>> >> FWIW (about $0.0002), Firefox 3.5 on Windows XP (32bit) doesn't crash on >> either newsletter. > > Nor does Firefox 3.5 running on Fedora 11. No problem at all. > > +0.0002 ;-) > My suspicion is that it has to do with the language packs, since the same src.rpm built w/o disabling language packs doesn't crash in CentOS 5.3 on either arch. <body lang="en" dir="ltr"> I wonder if that is what triggers it - IE a crash when FireFox can't find the language pack for "en". Maybe try fetching the page with wget, removing that, and see what happens? Also of interest - the mh build gave a Fedora start page, the build I did gave a CentOS start page. Maybe his mock config didn't define the rhel macro, so the build did some thing the Fedora way.