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! -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
