mozilla causing system lockups?

[Tim Wunder]

On 11/24/2003 10:26 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:

> On 11/24/03 07:12, Tom Wilson wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:17, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>> 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've noticed it as well.  With the same symtoms you described; nothing
>> in the logs, not reponse to anything.  It has also taken to restarting
>> the x-server occasionally when trying to watch video clips off of a
>> website.  I haven't found a fix and haven't upgrade to 1.5 yet to see if
>> that fixes it.  
> 
> 
> I tried going to 1.5.  No improvement.  At least its not just me.  I 
> just did a quick bugzilla search, and found nothing.  grrrr
> 

I've read that 1.5 is less stable than 1.4.1, so I wouldn't suspect that 
going to 1.5 would solve your problem. Are you using 1.4, or 1.4.1? 
FWIW, I've not experienced any lock-ups with Moz in quite some time on 
my home system (was RHL 8.0 with Moz 1.3 and now Fedora Core 1 with 
1.4.1). My wife uses it quite frequently for Yahoo mail and general 
browsing the 'net and has said nothing WRT to system lock-up problems.
I currently use Firebird 0.7 for the majority of my browsing 
(occasionally Konqueror 3.1.4 to access the sites that don't work with 
Firebird), and haven't experienced any lock-up issues.

Could your problem be linked to video card/driver issues?

Tim