mozilla causing system lockups?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:12:50 -0500 Tom Wilson <twilson at mcswaincarpets.com>
> 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.
> >
>
> Not a clue.  I've only used the MozillaFirebird releases for the past year, and
> I've never experienced lockups of the machine.  When using the FB 0.7 released
> code, I experienced a number of instances of "poof, it's gone" (usually related
> to downloads) and a repeatable problem with print (hang of FB only, had to kill
> all FB tasks), but no such troubles now that I have upgraded to the latest
> nightly download.

Its just happening on one of my boxes.

>
> Daring to state the obvious: the behavior you describe is most frequently an X
> and/or video driver problem.

Except that i'm using identical HW in a different box, with the same
version of mozilla, and it never locks up.  And this isn't bleeding edge
HW, its Intel 810, with XFree86-4.3.0.

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