mozilla irritations

Chaos · Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 4:42 am Post subject: mozilla irritations

Is it just me or is every mozilla release less stable than the last? And I'm only talking about 1.2.1 so from 1.2.1 to 1.2.1-r5 (not actual mozilla releases, just gentoo releases). I find that it's less stable overall and that, especially with plugins, it crashes quite consistently. I recently went from 1.2.1 to r5 and now I can't do much of anything with mozilla. It closes when I go to certain sites (www.3dspotlight.com and www.reactorcritical.com just to name a few) and when trying to load a pdf file. It's not just mozilla now either, but galeon too. It's not even an official crash (with a gnome dialog or anything), they just close altogether. I'm very frustrated by this because I don't understand why they are less stable and because these crashes have made me lose work and I hate losing work, as you all probably do. As it stands I'm going to downgrade back to just the vanilla 1.2.1 release and see if that fixes it...

cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

Actually the problem you are describing is caused by malfunctioning plugins. Surely you have heard that mozilla and gcc 3 have plugin problems, the most predominant being that of java. But other things that have been noted are flash plugins, and occasionally pdf plugins.

There are many threads on the java topic such as https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30534&highlight=

Flash is another issue, the plugins provided by portage should work, this holds true for acrobat aswell.

Chaos · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:22 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply. I tried that, but it didn't work (after going back down to 1.2.1-r4...I wish they still had plain old 1.2.1 in the portage). I'm guessing right now it's because of the fact that I use GTK2 although I used it before with 1.2.1 and had no problems so I don't know why it would come up now. I guess I'll just figure something else out until I get a 1.3 beta build or 1.3 final comes out.

Chaos · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 2:15 am Post subject:

ok, I've merged 1.3b and still nothing. I tried running mozilla under root as well and that actually works fine, which of course adds to the annoyance. I've tried removing onyx.ttf and running fc-cache, but that didn't work. Can anyone think of anything? I've been digging through the forums trying to find something, but I can't find anything. Even running strace...as far as I can see it spits out the exact same output with this user as with root...it's just that root's doesn't close itself. Bleh.