latest F11 64-bit Firefox unstable for me
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 12:36:34 UTC 2009
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:57:37AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Firefox has always been a bit unstable for me. It used to crash once
> a week or so. Usually this bug:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21583
>
> I admit that I use a lot of windows and tabs.
>
> In the last few days, firefox has started to crash once a day or so.
> You can see this by the timestamps on my core files:
> -rw-------. 1 hugh hugh 1669668864 2009-09-12 02:17 core.2981
> -rw-------. 1 hugh hugh 1280552960 2009-09-20 14:23 core.2978
> -rw-------. 1 hugh hugh 1408999424 2009-09-21 15:33 core.12617
> -rw-------. 1 hugh hugh 1408507904 2009-09-22 17:54 core.5627
> Nice and big, eh?
>
> These recent crashes are signal 11's -- segfaults. This is new to me.
>
> This firefox was installed September 16. I'm not sure why it started
> crashing. Maybe a particular web page that I have open.
>
> Anyone else notice a recent increase in firefox crashes?
If I can suggest something that was suggested to me, and has made a
big difference in my Firefox use (which also is lots of tabs, although
usually only one window):
#!/bin/bash
#
# Quick and easy scrubbing of the SQLite databases...
#
for i in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/*.sqlite ; do
echo 'VACUUM;' | sqlite3 "$i"
done
Best to do this before opening Firefox (or while it's not running).
You could even build it into a wrapper script and call that, instead
of Firefox itself, from your panel icon.
> Oh, while I'm asking, any idea why firefox spews this on the console?
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gnomebreakpad": libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> I get hundreds of them.
Darn it, I know I heard an explanation of why this happens, but I've
forgotten it now. Safe to ignore but yes, annoying. Maintainers know
of the problem and are working on it!
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