f8: PC dies while using firefox

Bradley Pursley pursley001 at comcast.net
Wed Apr 30 11:16:09 UTC 2008


Totally Burned wrote:
> Hi all, :)
>
> I have a Toshiba Satellite A100 with FC8 (all updates applied) and 
> Firefox 2.0.0.14 <http://2.0.0.14>. About 3 or 4 times my system 
> "froze up" completely too, and Firefox was open all 3 or 4 times. My 
> laptop is on practically all the time. The last time, it was seconds 
> after I entered my password on the Gmail login page. No other pages 
> open. I have various plugins installed, but none of those that the 
> thread originator mentioned. This hasn't happened more than a few 
> times despite my computer running practically 24/7 at the moment.
>
> David
>
Have you tried running a complete memory scan on the machine.  I've 
learned that applications that use Java tend to be sensitive to those 
problems.  Just something to start with.

Bradley




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