Firefox version 37.0.1 crashes on redhat.com

[Jim Lewis]

 I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox
upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at
first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the
dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again. Has
anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine and
it does not crash on that website.

Jim Lewis

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 11:18 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>  On 04/07/2015 05:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > Firefox has never asked me to update it on Fedora. As has already been
>  > suggested, you should uninstall it and install the Fedora repo version
>  > using yum.
>  
>  Fedora's firefox package overrides[1] some of Mozilla's default values. The
> in-app 
>  update functionality is disabled, which is why you never see it.
>  
>  [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firefox.git/tree/firefox-redhat-defaul...
I wasn't complaining, but thanks for the explanation.

poc

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 04/07/2015 05:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  Firefox has never asked me to update it on Fedora. As has already
> been
>  suggested, you should uninstall it and install the Fedora repo version
>  using yum. 
Fedora's firefox package overrides[1] some of Mozilla's default values. The in-app

update functionality is disabled, which is why you never see it.

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/firefox.git/tree/firefox-redhat-defaul...

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 14:44 +0930, Tim wrote:
>  On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 23:13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > Firefox has never asked me to update it on Fedora.
>  
>  Likewise.
>  
>  And one the major benefits *we* have over other OSs is that all updates
>  come from the same place, managed by the same system (yum, or dnf, now).
>  You don't have to individually manage keeping each program up to date,
>  or put up with each program interrupting you to update when you fire it
>  up because you want to *USE* it.  One "yum update" (or equivalent) takes
>  care of everything.  It's a big time and effort saver. 
Not to mention having automatic dependency checking so updates only
happen when they are consistent with each other.

poc

[Tim]

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 23:13 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  Firefox has never asked me to update it on Fedora. 
Likewise.

And one the major benefits *we* have over other OSs is that all updates
come from the same place, managed by the same system (yum, or dnf, now).
You don't have to individually manage keeping each program up to date,
or put up with each program interrupting you to update when you fire it
up because you want to *USE* it.  One "yum update" (or equivalent) takes
care of everything.  It's a big time and effort saver.

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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Tue, 07 Apr 2015 21:00:26 -0400 Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 04/07/2015 05:44 PM, Jim Lewis wrote:
>  >   I will add that Firefox is now almost unusable on this system. I have
>  > disabled the three plugins I have, didn't help. It works fine for about
>  > 5 minutes or so then crashes. Fortunately I have other machines. I
>  > wonder if it will stay up long enough to send this post.
>  >
>  I never use firefox. First thing I always do in any installation is
>  install chrome & opera. 
Amazing! For all its faults, firefox does not crash for me. Instead some video stops
loading. This is "fixed" by removing the profile, but then I lose some of the
stuff that I saved. 

Firefox's problems started at the time it began to lose its appeal for me, when Fedora
packagers moved from 256-bit encryption to 128-bit, as per ssl.fortify.net.

However, I still stick with it, and use midori for those problem video sites.

Ranjan

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[Paul Cartwright]

On 04/07/2015 05:44 PM, Jim Lewis wrote:
>    I will add that Firefox is now almost unusable on this system. I
> have
>  disabled the three plugins I have, didn't help. It works fine for about
>  5 minutes or so then crashes. Fortunately I have other machines. I
>  wonder if it will stay up long enough to send this post.
>  
I never use firefox. First thing I always do in any installation is
install chrome & opera.


-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 11:44 -1000, Jim Lewis wrote:
>  >   I updated Firefox using the dialog that it throws up in my
> face
>  from
>  > time to time. I usually wait since every time I update something it
>  > breaks but this time I decided to just do it. Have to say the result
>  is
>  > not at all unexpected. I wonder what other sites will blow it up.
>  >
>  >  I filled in the automatic bug report thing (twice) so maybe someone
>  will
>  > give that a look.
>  >
>  
>    I will add that Firefox is now almost unusable on this system. I
>  have
>  disabled the three plugins I have, didn't help. It works fine for
>  about
>  5 minutes or so then crashes. Fortunately I have other machines. I
>  wonder if it will stay up long enough to send this post. 
Firefox has never asked me to update it on Fedora. As has already been
suggested, you should uninstall it and install the Fedora repo version
using yum.

poc

[Jim Lewis]

> > On 04/07/2015 06:21 AM, Jim Lewis wrote:
> >>  I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox
> >> upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong
> >> at
> >> first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out
> >> the
> >> dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again.
> >> Has
> >> anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine
> >> and
> >> it does not crash on that website.
> >>
> >> Jim Lewis
> >>
> >>
> > I have the fedora supported 37.0 on fedora 21 x86_64 and redhat.com
> > comes up fine..
> >
> > --
> > Paul Cartwright
> > Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
> >
>
>    I updated Firefox using the dialog that it throws up in my face from
>  time to time. I usually wait since every time I update something it
>  breaks but this time I decided to just do it. Have to say the result is
>  not at all unexpected. I wonder what other sites will blow it up.
>
>   I filled in the automatic bug report thing (twice) so maybe someone will
>  give that a look.
>  
  I will add that Firefox is now almost unusable on this system. I have
disabled the three plugins I have, didn't help. It works fine for about
5 minutes or so then crashes. Fortunately I have other machines. I
wonder if it will stay up long enough to send this post.


Jim Lewis

[Jim Lewis]

>  On 04/07/2015 06:21 AM, Jim Lewis wrote:
> >  I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox
> > upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong
> > at
> > first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the
> > dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again.
> > Has
> > anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine
> > and
> > it does not crash on that website.
> >
> > Jim Lewis
> >
> >
>  I have the fedora supported 37.0 on fedora 21 x86_64 and redhat.com
>  comes up fine..
>
>  --
>  Paul Cartwright
>  Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
>  
  I updated Firefox using the dialog that it throws up in my face from
time to time. I usually wait since every time I update something it
breaks but this time I decided to just do it. Have to say the result is
not at all unexpected. I wonder what other sites will blow it up.

 I filled in the automatic bug report thing (twice) so maybe someone will
give that a look.


Jim Lewis

[Paul Cartwright]

On 04/07/2015 06:21 AM, Jim Lewis wrote:
>   I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let
> Firefox
>  upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at
>  first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the
>  dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again. Has
>  anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine and
>  it does not crash on that website.
>
>  Jim Lewis
>
>  
I have the fedora supported 37.0 on fedora 21 x86_64 and redhat.com
comes up fine..

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587

[Ted Roche]

Jim:

I've just upgraded the fedora-supplied FireFox 37.0 on Fedora 20 and
"works fine for me"

Linux myhost.mydomain 3.19.3-100.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 27
16:53:47 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:21 AM, Jim Lewis <jim(a)jklewis.com&gt; wrote:
>   I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox
>  upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at
>  first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the
>  dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again. Has
>  anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine and
>  it does not crash on that website.
>
>  Jim Lewis
>
>
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[Alchemist]

2015-04-07 15:26 GMT+03:00 g <geleem(a)bellsouth.net&gt;:

>  On 04/07/2015 05:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>  > Jim Lewis writes:
>  >>  I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox
>  >> upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong
>  at
>  >> first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out
>  the
>  >> dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again.
>  Has
>  >> anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine
>  and
>  >> it does not crash on that website.
>  >
>  > Sounds like you're not using Fedora's Firefox package. Fedora Firefox
>  > packages do not update themselves, and the latest version is 37.0
>  >
>  > Using Fedora's Firefox package, it loads www.redhat.com without any
>  issues.
>  > If you're using Mozilla's own Firefox packages, you should use
> Mozilla's
>  > support forums to report any issues.
>
>  you have suggested for Jim to uninstall 37.0.1 and install
>  fedora 37.0.
>
>  mozilla support is loaded with oos users who tend to be anti
>  linux.
>
>  
Version 37.0.1 is baking right now

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=37


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On 04/07/2015 05:53 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>  Jim Lewis writes:
> >  I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox
> > upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at
> > first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the
> > dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again. Has
> > anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine and
> > it does not crash on that website.
>
>  Sounds like you're not using Fedora's Firefox package. Fedora Firefox  
>  packages do not update themselves, and the latest version is 37.0
>
>  Using Fedora's Firefox package, it loads www.redhat.com without any issues.  
>  If you're using Mozilla's own Firefox packages, you should use Mozilla's  
>  support forums to report any issues. 
you have suggested for Jim to uninstall 37.0.1 and install
fedora 37.0.

mozilla support is loaded with oos users who tend to be anti
linux.


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peace out.

in a world with out fences, who needs gates.

CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6

tc,hago.

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.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Jim Lewis writes:

>   I hope this is not off topic for this group. I decided to let Firefox
>  upgrade (?) itself to the latest version, 37.0.1. Nothing seemed wrong at
>  first, but when I tried to go to redhat.com it crashed. I filled out the
>  dialog thing, restarted Firefox, and went there again. Crashed again. Has
>  anyone else seen this? I have Firefox version 35.0 on another machine and
>  it does not crash on that website. 
Sounds like you're not using Fedora's Firefox package. Fedora Firefox  
packages do not update themselves, and the latest version is 37.0

Using Fedora's Firefox package, it loads www.redhat.com without any issues.  
If you're using Mozilla's own Firefox packages, you should use Mozilla's  
support forums to report any issues.