Firefox sporadically dies.

#1 Dapper Dan

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Posted 14 October 2004 - 03:02 PM

Under Fedora Core 1, Core 2 and Suse 9.2 Professional, Firefox will, sporadically just die when I'm either going to a new web page, or making a new post on a forum. It happens often enough to be considered a nuisance. It has died on me when I press "preview" a couple of times, which is really irritating since that means I have to go back and type the whole post all over again.

Anyone else having similar problems with Firefox suddenly dying?

#2 egorgry

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Posted 14 October 2004 - 03:22 PM

I was having that issue with firefox 0.92... i think... whatever one is in the sid repository. I removed it and compiled firfox 1.0 preview realease from source and it seems much more stable.

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Posted 14 October 2004 - 04:10 PM

Forgot to mention, the version is 0.9.cvs.20040902-1. I might try to compile 1.0 and see if that helps. Thanks.

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 04:35 AM

Well, I've been working on this a good while now...

I downloaded the tarball and it installed without a hitch into my home directory under firefox-installer.

Everything seemed to work swimmingly except I couldn't get Realplayer to work. I worked on this for hours, making symbolic links every which way I knew, but it just wouldn't work with Realplayer 8 or Gold 10.

I then went to delete it to start again, and when I looked in Yast2, I noticed firefox was available, listed as mozilla-firefox.

You see, I downloaded the rpm, (version above), thinking it was not in the Yast repositories, and that's what I've been running that has given me trouble.

I downloaded the version in Yast2, (I think it was 8.3), and so far it's working perfectly. Realplayer 8 is working with it as well.

It's too early to tell whether it will give me the same problems. I'll let y'all know how it works out...

#5 egorgry

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 03:05 PM

I've never used Real for linux. I always use the w32codecs with mplayer and mozplugger. I'm really enjoying firefox 1.0pr I love the live bookmarks.

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 05:15 PM

If you will show me how to get mplayer or xine to play the video on this page, I'll be more than happy to get rid of RealPlayer...

#7 egorgry

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Posted 16 October 2004 - 03:02 PM

Man I hate when I come across sites like that. There is no reason that can't work. I play embeded media from apple, I can play mms:// streams, and real streams from other sites. every once and a while I run into this. It's usually news sites too. I was trying to figure out the videos source page to see if I could rip the videos location out of the source. If I get more time I'll try to figure it out.