[clue-tech] Firefox 1.04 crash

[Matt Gushee]

Collins Richey wrote:
> Just curious if I'm the only one. I've been running Firefox 1.04 for
> some time now (RPM version on CentOS) with no problems of any sort.
> Now I've found a site that crashes my browser every time. This was
> from a report linked by LinuxToday
> 
> http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/07/13/1513211.shtml

Works For Me[TM]. A while back, I was having mysterious crashes with 
Firefox and other GTK apps. It turned out that all the problem apps were 
linked with libxml2, and I had an old version of the library in 
/usr/local/lib, which I had installed some time ago and forgotten about. 
Once I deleted that, everything was fine.

Which is not to say that libxml2 is the problem in your case. But it 
could be the wrong version of some other library. The following 
techniques were useful to me in troubleshooting:

   1) Run Firefox from the command line. If the problem is GTK-related,
      (which would include things like libxml) you should get a ton of
      error messages, some of which may be useful.

   2) $ ldd /path/to/firefox.bin
      See if it shows any libraries in odd locations (of course, it's
      possible that your distribution has provided a bum library, but
      with software as mainstream as Firefox and the libraries it
      depends on, that's not too likely).

Or the problem could be a Firefox extension. Have you tried uninstalling 
all your extensions?

Best of luck with it.

--
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA
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