latest F11 64-bit Firefox unstable for me

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Fri Sep 25 02:38:07 UTC 2009


| From: Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>

| 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.

| > In the last few days, firefox has started to crash once a day or so.

| > These recent crashes are signal 11's -- segfaults.  This is new to me.

| 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...

Thanks for the suggestion.  I've never done that before, but I did it
before restarting FireFox this time.

This time FF crashed after two days.  This looks to be the same crash.
So I don't imagine that the scrubbing actually affected the crash.

BTW, I run FF with the --sync flag hoping this might make it more 
debuggable.

This is getting very tiresome.  What should I do?  Is there a better 
instrumented version of FF?




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