On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:44:05 -0500, Chris Hammond <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
>
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> >
> >> Has anyone else noticed that firefox is less stable after the recent
> >> security update?
> >> I'm getting several occurrences per day of "just goes poof," i.e.
> >> probably seg fault.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I've noticed this on WinXP as well. Not only does it go poof, but
> > sometimes it just decides to hang, stare at it's own navel, and gobble
> > up 99% of the cpu time.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > C
> >
> Having this exact same hanging issue. It was doing it constantly but
> the problem seems to have stopped. Probal shouldn't have said that as
> it will
> probably start again. :)
>
Can you start with a clean profile? If your machine is configured normally:
firefox --profilemanager
Make a new profile and use that one. If you get the problem to
continue, then it's a real problem. If it goes away, then your
profile got corrupted. This commonly happens during upgrades between
firefox versions, especially when you have themes, extesions,
configuration settings setup.
Greg
