[GLLUG] mozilla weirdness

[Michael T.Watters II]

Java tends to crash mozilla a lot.  Other than that I haven't had any problems with any version of mozilla.  Usually you can switch to a terminal and kill -9 the process, but I have had it hard lock the system before.

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:13:34 -0500
"Dylan M." <misenhe1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:

> wondering if anyone has seen this before....  it seems the mozilla 
> (v1.2) browser (not mail client) will lock up my entire box (not even 
> pingable).  first started happening when i was running v1.3a, figured it 
> was just alpha, and installed 1.2.  seems to happen more w/root than 
> other users.  tried ripping and reinstalling the program w/no luck. 
>  haven't really found a pattern other than when i change pages, and 
> while thats loading, hit a dropdown menu or move the window.  tho thats 
> not always the case.  sometimes its just open (or shaded).
> 
> i'm running slackware8.1, blackbox 0.65, kernel 2.4.20, on a machine 
> w/1GHz Athlon, 768M RAM, so it shouldn't be resource problem.  it even 
> happens when mozilla is the only thing open in X.  
> 
> is there something else i'm overlooking?  never freezes up when mozilla 
> is not open, regardless of what other programs i do have open.  this is 
> a relatively new install on linux, only been up for about a month or so. 
>  i have installed quite a few different programs/libraries right around 
> when this started happening (QT, GTK, linuxconf) tho i'm not sure that 
> they could be effecting them.  the only two plugins i have installed in 
> mozilla is Java and Shockwave.
> 
> any ideas, anyone else run into this also?  i had this problem in RH7.3 
> and RH8 in the last year too, but not nearly as often, and windows 
> partition doesn't have any problems (tho i dont' spend a whole lot of 
> time in that)
> 
> thanks
> dylan
> 
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