Firefox 1.5.0.7 about as stable as WATER

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zambizzi · Post by **zambizzi** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:23 am

I can't keep this pig from crashing! Sometimes it's while trying to download a file...or a page w/ a flash banner comes up...poof...the sucker just disappears.

I haven't even installed any extensions yet!

That's it, I'm switching to IE!!

Seriously though, am I alone here? I've never had this problem so I wouldn't even begin to know what to look for.

onlinepancakes · Post by **onlinepancakes** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:21 am

Firefox 1.5 was horrible for me. I left it when Firefox 2.0 beta 1 hit portage and been using 2.0 since. If I was you, I would unmaske Firefox 2.0 RC2. Its more stable than the stable version. Works great and 98798x faster, lol.

iamarug · Post by **iamarug** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 4:50 am

Yeah, I did pretty much the same. Firefox 2 has been much better for me.

jasonpf · Post by **jasonpf** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:03 am

I have the same problems on a system I built recently. I think it has to do with a cairo problem as I had this on yet another system but noticed some libpango errors when I ran firefox from a konsole window. There was a fix for it, but I can't remember what it was at the moment (something like setting a variable to be exported from the firefox launcher script). I'd try running firefox from a console window (from within X - so you have the DISPLAY variable set right) and see if you get any "libpango" or something like that errors - that's what I was getting.

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:25 am

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export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

Makes rendering 3 to 4 times faster for me.

jasonpf · Post by **jasonpf** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:45 am

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of, thanks yngwin.

Headrush · Post by **Headrush** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:12 am

What arch are you guys on and are you using your self-compiled version or the -bin version?

Haven't had a single crash ever using the -bin version on amd64.

onlinepancakes · Post by **onlinepancakes** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:12 am

X86 and source.

Roguelazer · Post by **Roguelazer** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:36 am

Firefox is usually extremely stable. I find that what crashes it are plugins- particularly the flash plugins, all of which are highly unstable (the official one was written when Netscape 4 was state-of-the art, and gnash is essentially useless for real business). Try disabling some plugins. And if that doesn't work, you probably did something stupid like override the strip-flags in firefox to build it with unstable CFLAGS.

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:10 am

I'm using 1.5.0.7 from source on ~amd64. It's rock solid.

DeepBass909 · Post by **DeepBass909** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:19 pm

I'm running both Firefox 1.5.0.7 and 2.0RC2 and both are rock-solid (kde is the one that crashes befor Firefox). I did notice in older builds that Firefox was sometimes a bit unstable, but that was almost always because of some broken dependencies.
revdep-rebuild en re-emerging Firefox cured that.

I can remember that the prebuild binairy Firefox was a bit more unstable than the sourcecode version.

BTW Firefox 2.0RC2 is worth a try, it has a lot less trouble with IE-optimized webpages.

Bloodsurfer · Post by **Bloodsurfer** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:34 pm

Never had a single crash with Firefox...

Anyway, when will 2.0 be released? Shouldn't it come this month?

Weedman · Post by **Weedman** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:37 am

I hear your cries zambizzi!

1.5.0.7 has been VERY unstable for me as well. Most of the time, when I routinely close a tab FF crashes.

To make matters worse, the behaviour is very unpredictable. As in, it might crash once in a day, and might not crash the next.

I think it is just 1.5.0.7, as I've never had these problems before.

And to make it all sound sweeter, FF has the exact same behaviour on Ubuntu 6.06 as it does on the latest uptodate Gentoo.

Here is a crash snippet I got from my Ubuntu system (I closed a popup window):

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(Gecko:7072): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x32c78ea unexpectedly destroyed

(Gecko:7072): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_user_data: assertion `window != NULL' failed

(Gecko:7072): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(Gecko:7072): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(Gecko:7072): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(Gecko:7072): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_move_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(Gecko:7072): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_show_unraised: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(Gecko:7072): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
The application 'Gecko' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.

By what has already been said, I might want to unmask 2.0RC? to enjoy a crash-free browsing experience.

weed

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:56 am

It may be a problem with your GTK theme.

Weedman · Post by **Weedman** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:50 am

Ugg, I've forgotten which is the GTK part of the theme.

Is it Controls or Window border?

And another thing, the themes between Gentoo and Ubuntu is different.

I'll try using a different set of themes for Gentoo, and see what happens.

weed