On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone else experienced a large number of firefox crashes in the > last few days with FC13? I have all the latest updates for x86_64, and > I believe the recent java updates have caused some instability with > firefox: > > java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-46.1.8.3.fc13 Wed 01 Dec 2010 10:02:28 PM EST > java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-46.1.8.3.fc13 Wed 01 Dec 2010 10:02:16 PM EST > > The bug reporting tool thing reports SIGSEGV (signal 11), but doesn't > really describe the cause. It seems to happen when visiting a page > that requires java. A common misconception when installing Java on Linux was to simply copy the plug-in files to the browser´s plugins dir, when in fact the right approach was to create symlinks... If you copied the files instead of creating links, the result was that the first java applet crashed the browser. (I always wondered how difficult it would have been for browser developers to find this situation, and show an error dialog, or better, fix the issue by moving the files outside the plugins folder and creating the symlinks itself). http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java It´s the "java is not our problem" mindset of browser developers what always makes things worse. FC -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
