firefox rant, thanks for konqueror to the KDE devs.

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Sat Apr 10 20:51:35 UTC 2010


On 04/11/2010 02:13 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow Fedora users,
>
> \begin{rant}
> I have tried to use firefox on/off for a while, and I know since it is opensource, Fedora will stick with it even though it has become a big and ugly resource taker :(.
>
> The other day I was giving it a chance and browsing the web happily, and then all of a sudden my machine died on me, I could not move the mouse, I could not CTRL+ALT+F2 to get a terminal(since CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE was removed by Xorg(thanks guys))
This functionality was disabled by default but never removed.  

> I submitted it and it says it went to the kernel and not to FIREFOX.  How sad it was a kernel oops and not a FIREFOX oops.  I beg to differ.  
>   

What you have shown is quite clearly a kernel bug although Firefox might
have triggered it.  It seems a misdirected rant to me.

Rahul


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