mozilla causing system lockups?

[Chong Yu Meng]

I'm using Mozilla 1.5 with no problems, on a RH9 box running XFCE4. No 
lockups here, though it did crash my X server once (but only once in the 
last 3 months!) The Java plugin I'm using is from Blackdown JRE 
(http://www.blackdown.org). Maybe it's the Java plugin ? Is it site 
specific?

Regards,
pascal chong

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:12:50 -0500 Tom Wilson <twilson at mcswaincarpets.com>
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>>On Sun, 2003-11-23 at 23:17, Net Llama! wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.  
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>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.
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>Daring to state the obvious: the behavior you describe is most frequently an X
>and/or video driver problem.
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