Firefox Crashing When Switching Tabs, Selecting Text. etc.

Les B. Labbauf

Am currently running Mandriva 2007, and have Firefox 2.0.0.4.

java version "1.4.2"
JamVM version 1.4.3

Firefox has started to crash daily, mostly when switching tabs, or
selecting text, sometimes when trying to scroll down a page. The cursor
turns into an upper left corner frame with what looks like two pages. It
then crashes. I have tried running from a terminal to see if any error
messages get printed but nothing. I think I remember seeing this as a bug
with the current java level, but not sure where to look.

Bit Twister

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:49:40 -0600, Les B. Labbauf wrote:
> Am currently running Mandriva 2007, and have Firefox 2.0.0.4.
>
> java version "1.4.2"
> JamVM version 1.4.3

First thing I would do, is install Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Java 1.6.0_03-b05
to close possible security exploits.
No idea what the mirrors have for 2007. I know 2008 free and non-free
have both packages.

If problem still happens, I would run memtest over night.

Personally I do not wait for package but install them from the vendor.

I have a separate partition for installs like that.

Snippet from my admin diary
#************************************************* ****************
#*
#* firefox-2.0.0.11_install.txt
#*
#* Package downloaded from
#*
#* Note: Following assumes a /local/opt partition for install and
#* /usr/local/bin is in the front of PATH so our install
#* supersedes /usr/bin/ vendor installed app.
#* Example:
#* echo $PATH
#* /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games....
#*
#************************************************* ****************

# close all email/browser accounts/apps

Click up a terminal, login as root
su - root

cd /local/opt
tar zxvf /accounts/downloads/firefox-2.0.0.11.tar.gz
mv firefox firefox-2.0.0.11

# move the runtime app's link

/bin/rm -f /usr/local/bin/firefox
ln -s /local/opt/firefox-2.0.0.11/firefox /usr/local/bin
ls -al /usr/local/bin

# test as root, run firefox, exit it, run again, exit firefox

cd
pwd
/usr/local/bin/firefox

#****************** end firefox-2.0.0.11_install.txt ***********





#************** Start jre-6u3-linux-i586_install.txt **************
#*
#* Download jre from
#* pick Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Update 2 download
#*
#************************************************* ***************

mcc
and remove jre

chmod +x /accounts/downloads/jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
cd /accounts/downloads
/accounts/downloads/jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin
yes


cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/bin/rm -f libjavaplugin_oji.so

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
ls -al

#******************************************
#* jre/java test links
#******************************************

firefox
and verify version number displayed on screen

firefox

#************** End jre-6u3-linux-i586_install.txt *********************