firefox crash

[Patrick Dupre]

Hello,

I observed a lot of crashes with firefox 21
for example just going to www.thesaurus.com
I also use ABP to block the AD, but it does not seem to be the poblem.

What is wrong ?

Thank.
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[Reindl Harald]

Am 24.05.2013 10:38, schrieb Patrick Dupre:
> Hello,
>
> I observed a lot of crashes with firefox 21
> for example just going to www.thesaurus.com
> I also use ABP to block the AD, but it does not seem to be the poblem
>
> What is wrong ?

which build are you using

[harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -q firefox
firefox-21.0-4.fc18.x86_64
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=421141

[harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -q xulrunner
xulrunner-21.0-5.fc18.x86_64
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=420991

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/24/13 16:38, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> I observed a lot of crashes with firefox 21
> for example just going to www.thesaurus.com
> I also use ABP to block the AD, but it does not seem to be the poblem.
>
> What is wrong ?

I just went to www.thesaurus.com and had no problems....

You've tried starting FF in safe mode?

[Konstantin Svist]

On 05/24/2013 01:38 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> I observed a lot of crashes with firefox 21
> for example just going to www.thesaurus.com
> I also use ABP to block the AD, but it does not seem to be the poblem.

Just went there with ABP -- works fine.
If you just updated firefox, you may need to reboot the machine - I've
seen stability problems before reboot

[Tim]

On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 09:15 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> If you just updated firefox, you may need to reboot the machine - I've
> seen stability problems before reboot

Seems a bit extreme, this isn't Windows.  For sure, you quit Firefox and
make sure it's not running at all, after an update.  I've certainly seen
Firefox screw up if I tried to use it while it was still running during
an update.  But I've never had to reboot for it.

[Bill Davidsen]

Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 09:15 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> > If you just updated firefox, you may need to reboot the machine - I've
> > seen stability problems before reboot
>
> Seems a bit extreme, this isn't Windows.  For sure, you quit Firefox and
> make sure it's not running at all, after an update.  I've certainly seen
> Firefox screw up if I tried to use it while it was still running during
> an update.  But I've never had to reboot for it.

Depending on what updates, you may have to rerun ldconfig to get FF looking at 
the correct libraries. I have to do that after some updates.

[Reindl Harald]

Am 28.05.2013 18:54, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 09:15 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> > > If you just updated firefox, you may need to reboot the machine - I've
> > > seen stability problems before reboot
> >
> > Seems a bit extreme, this isn't Windows.  For sure, you quit Firefox and
> > make sure it's not running at all, after an update.  I've certainly seen
> > Firefox screw up if I tried to use it while it was still running during
> > an update.  But I've never had to reboot for it.
>
> Depending on what updates, you may have to rerun ldconfig to get FF looking at the correct libraries. I have to do
> that after some updates

write a bugreport for the updated packages
they *must* call ldconfig if they update libraries

IMHO it is a misdesign that every single package has to run ldconfig
for updates of many packages instead get this triggered at the end
of the yum-transaction or at least yum could do ldconfig *at the end*
of any transaction, but this is how things are working