mozilla causing system lockups?

[Shawn Tayler]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:17:10 -0800 "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> professed:

> Anyone seeing some extreme instability where your entire box locks up 
> (unrecoverable) when using Mozilla?  I've noticed that ever since 
> Mozilla-1.4, on one of my boxes, i'm getting random lockups.  It only 
> happens when i'm actively using mozilla though.  For example, i could be 
> changing tabs, or middle-clicking a link, and BAM, game over, the box is 
> locked up.  Not even a response to ping or Sysrq.  There are no errors in 
> messages.   I thought it might have been a hardware problem, but i've 
> swapped out the memory & CPU with no improvement.

I get the same effect with Netscape, hadn't noticed on Mozilla, but I don't use it much.

Just completing a complete reinstall using Slack 9.1.   Hopping to see if things are more stable.

Shawn