[lug] thunderbird/firefox crashing on FC17 latest

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:38:09 -0700
"William D. Knoche" <bill.knoche at gmail.com> wrote:

> looking for some suggestions on diagnosing...
> 
> I disabled addons/extentions after discovering that flash seemed to
> be at least partially responsibleor at least sites that use flash
> seem to fail much more quickly.
> I should note that gnash was slightly betterbut did not resolve it.
> And, I am still getting both thunderbird and firefox crashing- pretty 
> often, every few minuteseven with addons/ext disabled.
> 
> I also tried chrome and it also crashes...
> I downgraded thunderbird and firefox but no better.
> 
> Things were pretty stable until my most recent yum upgrade. So 
> someunderlying facility seems to have a problem.
> Are others having problems?
> Suggestions?

If you create a new user and login as that user and run them do they
still crash? That will let you know if it's a system wide issue or a
per user config issue. 

With firefox try a new profile and/or -safe-mode

kevin
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