F18 Browser troubles

Cristian Sava csava at central.ucv.ro
Wed Feb 20 07:38:46 UTC 2013


On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 22:39 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:42:25 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2013-02-18 at 17:16 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> >> 	For some time, both Firefox and Seamonkey have been popping up
> >> complaint notices every few seconds; and every few minutes one or both
> >> will crash. This morning it got so bad that I closed both of them,
> >> opening Arora and Midori instead, planning to ask if it's Mozilla or
> >> me,
> >> or xfce, or F18. Arora and Midori also both crashed within a few
> >> minutes of launching.
> > 
> > How about telling us what the complaint notices say?
> 
> 	Well, that's easier asked than done, since they don't stay long. 
> Most seem to be of the form "A problem in the ____ package has been 
> detected." 
> 
> 	Below that are buttons for Ignore and Report.
> 
> 	Very many, I think not all, mention "xulrunner" (whatever that 
> is; wikipedia's article is over my head, and there is no man page).
> 
> 
> -- 
> Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line
> Death is not evil. Suffering is evil.
> 
> 
You are not alone. I have similar problems with some boxes with Firefox
18 and Fedora 18 (Gnome). Some sites (including kernel.org) are moving
top after some seconds, on other sites if you type somewhere the cursor
jump to another location, and so on. I installed Chrome instead.

C. Sava




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