firefox crash

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Tue May 28 16:54:15 UTC 2013


Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 09:15 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> If you just updated firefox, you may need to reboot the machine - I've
>> seen stability problems before reboot
>
> Seems a bit extreme, this isn't Windows.  For sure, you quit Firefox and
> make sure it's not running at all, after an update.  I've certainly seen
> Firefox screw up if I tried to use it while it was still running during
> an update.  But I've never had to reboot for it.
>
Depending on what updates, you may have to rerun ldconfig to get FF looking at 
the correct libraries. I have to do that after some updates.

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