Newbie: Repeated browser failures Firefox, Mozilla, Konqueror, FC3 2.6.10

Hi,

   Running Fedora 3 and 2 on laptop. Installed ATI
proprietory drivers to try to improve stability.

   I frequently get browser (Mozilla, Firefox,
Konqueror) windows just closing. I have looked in logs
and don't see any error messages. Konqueror does
sometimes  trap the error and produces trace - see
below. I'm am very light-weight in Linux. Any meaning
from the attached? Should I post the info elsewhere?

Thanks

Clive

Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1208297792 (LWP 5922)]
[KCrash handler]
#4  0x024088bb in QPtrStack<DOM::NodeImpl>::deleteItem
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#5  0x02408a8b in QPtrStack<DOM::NodeImpl>::deleteItem
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#6  0x0247351a in
QPtrVector<khtml::RenderLayer>::deleteItem ()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#7  0x0245bfe0 in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#8  0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#9  0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#10 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#11 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#12 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#13 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#14 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#15 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#16 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#17 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#18 0x0245bfcc in QValueVectorPrivate<QRect>::reserve
()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#19 0x0248d35f in non-virtual thunk to
khtml::RenderSelect::~RenderSelect() ()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#20 0x08d10188 in ?? ()
#21 0x00000000 in ?? ()

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 23:36:34 +0100 (BST), Clive at Rational wrote:

>  Hi,
>  
>     Running Fedora 3 and 2 on laptop. Installed ATI
>  proprietory drivers to try to improve stability.
>  
>     I frequently get browser (Mozilla, Firefox,
>  Konqueror) windows just closing. I have looked in logs
>  and don't see any error messages. Konqueror does
>  sometimes  trap the error and produces trace - see
>  below. I'm am very light-weight in Linux. Any meaning
>  from the attached? Should I post the info elsewhere? 
http://bugzilla.redhat.com is the place where to report bugs in
Fedora Core.
 
>  Using host libthread_db library
>  "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>  [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>  [New Thread -1208297792 (LWP 5922)]
>  [KCrash handler]
>  #4  0x024088bb in QPtrStack<DOM::NodeImpl>::deleteItem
>  ()
>     from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4 
Konqueror, Mozilla and Firefox are different enough as not to use the
same code (e.g. Qt and libkhtml). So, assumedly you either see different
bugs or unstable hardware. That you see crashes happen "frequently"
sounds suspicious. Focus on using Firefox and try to find out whether
you can find a test-case, i.e. a web page which crashes reproducibly.

-- 
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt(a)users.sf.net&gt;
Fedora Core release 5 (Development) - Linux 2.6.12-1.1425_FC5
loadavg: 2.12 2.27 1.95