[lug] Firefox crashes

[Sarah Tempest]

Solution:

Download Chrome. ;)

But seriously, I believe Firefox 3.6 is known for its memory leaks as Davide
mentioned. Add-ons and plugins, especially Flash, make the memory leakage
problem worse. Firefox claims their newer versions are more stable and
consume less memory, but I can't really give you an opinion on that since I
run Fedora and switched to Chrome. I would try what Davide is doing, his
call on the memory leak seems pretty spot on. Sorry if this reply seems
redundant, thought it might help to hear a second opinion. :)

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Steven A Hart <shart at colorado.edu> wrote:

> **
> I've got an annoying problem and I can't seem to find a solution online.
>
> Here's my setup:
> RHEL 5 64 bit
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Red
> Hat/3.6-2.el5 Firefox/3.6.20
> File: libflashplayer.so   Version: Shockwave Flash 11.0 d1
> kernel = 2.6.18-274.el5
>
> I was using the the latest stable libflashplayer and had this same problem
> and hoped that the newer beta would help but it did not.
>
> So the main problem:
>
> I usually keep Firefox running all day.  At least once a day (usually 2-3
> times a day), It will randomly just disappear.  Sometimes it happens while
> I'm surfing, other times I'll only have gmail open and idle and come back to
> find the browser gone.  Usually it happens while a flash site is being
> viewed.
>
> dmesg shows:
> plugin-containe[24641]: segfault at 0000003e4de80300 rip 0000003e4de80300
> rsp 000000004227b0d8 error 14
> plugin-containe[26236]: segfault at 0000003e4de80300 rip 0000003e4de80300
> rsp 0000000041dd10d8 error 14
> plugin-containe[26341]: segfault at 0000003e4de80300 rip 0000003e4de80300
> rsp 0000000041be90d8 error 14
> plugin-containe[27676]: segfault at 0000003e4de80300 rip 0000003e4de80300
> rsp 00000000428d80d8 error 14
>
>
> /var/log/messages shows:
> kernel: plugin-containe[27676]: segfault at 0000003e4de80300 rip
> 0000003e4de80300 rsp 00000000428d80d8 error 14
>
> I've found similar problems listed but no real solutions that seem to fit.
> I was just curious if anyone had any ideas. I know flash and Linux still
> don't play nice but this crashing is getting old and I'd like to be rid of
> it if possible.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
> --
> Steve Hart
> Systems Administrator
> Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
> University of Colorado Boulder
> Steven.Hart at colorado.edu
> (303)492-8109
>
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