Intermittent Disaster

[Beartooth Sciurivore]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:03:49 -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:

> My Fedora 7 and 8 are working fine. Typically I bring up my Firefox web
> browser and try to read what is on the Google page. It is from a
> newspaper and it has a lot of advertising and pop-ups. While all this is
> coming up, sometimes it keys a sudden loss of the screen due to a full
> screen cross-hatch, and neither keyboard or Mouse work. The only thing
> to do is turn off power to the computer.

	You don't say what extensions you have installed in Firefox, nor 
whether you even have it behind a proxy. Before doing a lot of work, I'd 
try (if you haven't) putting firefox behind privoxy, and getting the 
NoScript and Adblock extensions.

	If you already have those defenses, I'm no judge what to try next.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8; Alpine 0.99999, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.24, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.