FC2 system lockup under Mozilla 1.7.7

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, bof wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running FC2 on a PIII 700.
>
> When trying to access certain webpages under Mozilla 1.7.7, the system
> locks up completely: the screen, mouse and keyboard freeze. The only way
> that I can recover is to hard reboot the system.  I have also been
> running a file system integrity check when offered, as the system did
> not shut down cleanly.
>
> I never know which pages are going to do this -- they occur randonly as
> I browse the web. Here is one example:
>
>     http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/.
>
> This particular page locked up the system under Mozilla but load and
> worked as it should under Konquerer 3.2.2-8.FC2.
>
> What is happening? And do I really need to run the file system integrity
> check?

I used to have a problem like this a long time ago, and it turned out to
be the mozilla theme I was using.  That said, FC2 is kinda old, so you
could be hitting all kinds of bugs that have been resolved in the year+
since FC2 was released.

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