F18 Browser troubles

[Beartooth]

	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.

	Neither Dillo nor Konqueror has been having any such troubles, 
nor has Opera.


-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.

[Ian Malone]

On 20 February 2013 16:37, Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:
>  On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:38:46 +0200, Cristian Sava wrote:
>          [....]
> > 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.
>
>          While I do email (with Alpine on a terminal, in another
>  workspace), I get popups every few seconds, about equally from Firefox
>  and Seamonkey; Midori and Arora each launched normally, gave me a new tab
>  normally, let me type or paste into it, and then crashed rather than get
>  the site.
>  
Running F18 and Firefox 18.0.2 here on KDE, maybe try another desktop?
XULrunner is the underlying engine that's used for Firefox, Seamonkey
and Thunderbird (and probably other Mozilla apps I don't know about).

-- 
imalone
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:58:23 +0200, Cristian Sava wrote:

>  On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 09:51 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: 
 
> > If multiple browsers are crashing it's likely that a plugin
> (such as
> > Flash or Java) is involved, since they're usually present in all of
> > them.
> > 
> > Try starting Firefox in safe mode (there's an option to Restart with
> > Add-ons Disabled option in the Help menu) and see if the crashes stop. 
 
>  This does not help here. I'm waiting FF19 
	Nor here. 

	Yesterday, for a little while, one of my other browsers actually 
got to it; but I already disremember which, and none seems to get beyond 
the "preview".


-- 
Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line
Death is not evil. Suffering is evil.

[Cristian Sava]

On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 09:51 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>  On Feb 18, 2013 10:16 AM, "Beartooth"
> <beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; 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.
>  >
>  >         Neither Dillo nor Konqueror has been having any such
>  troubles,
>  > nor has Opera.
>  
>  If multiple browsers are crashing it's likely that a plugin (such as
>  Flash or Java) is involved, since they're usually present in all of
>  them.
>  
>  Try starting Firefox in safe mode (there's an option to Restart with
>  Add-ons Disabled option in the Help menu) and see if the crashes stop.
>  
>  -T.C.
>   
This does not help here. I'm waiting FF19

C.Sava

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Feb 18, 2013 10:16 AM, "Beartooth" <beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; 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.
>
>          Neither Dillo nor Konqueror has been having any such troubles,
>  nor has Opera. 
If multiple browsers are crashing it's likely that a plugin (such as Flash
or Java) is involved, since they're usually present in all of them.

Try starting Firefox in safe mode (there's an option to Restart with
Add-ons Disabled option in the Help menu) and see if the crashes stop.

-T.C.

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:38:46 +0200, Cristian Sava wrote:
	[....]
>  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. 
	While I do email (with Alpine on a terminal, in another 
workspace), I get popups every few seconds, about equally from Firefox 
and Seamonkey; Midori and Arora each launched normally, gave me a new tab 
normally, let me type or paste into it, and then crashed rather than get 
the site.

-- 
Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line
Death is not evil. Suffering is evil.

[Cristian Sava]

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

[Beartooth]

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.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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?

poc