[svlug] Firefox/Thunderbird closing

Skip Evans skip at bigskypenguin.com
Sun Jan 21 13:57:19 PST 2007


Hi Ken,

No upgrades, plugins or other changes since the 
original install.

Skip

Ken Blake wrote:
> Skip,
> 
> On 1/20/07, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hey all,
>>
>>I have two Debian workstations running a 2.6
>>kernel and on both them Firefox and Thunderbird
>>will just close at seemingly random times.
> 
> 
> Have you installed/upgraded any plugins, add-ons, themes, etc.  I
> upgraded from flash v7
> to flash v9 Wed night.  Saturday morning my wife asked if I did
> anything because Firefox
> has been crashing left and right for the past two days.  I changed the
> sym links to point
> back to v7 (which I hadn't deleted yet) and so far no crashes (or as
> my previous employer
> called them, premature exits).  Also note that my wife wasn't visiting
> flash heavy sites but
> places like ebay (which might use flash in some ads?).    I haven't
> heard anyone else
> having problems with the new version of flash and this certainly isn't
> a definitive test.
> This is with the latest version of firefox and she also tried an older
> version of Mozilla which
> also crashed.
> 
> Ken
> 
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