Re: Firefox instability

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 12:08 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:56:08AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > I've only just tried FireFox on amd64 today.  (Using Konqueror
> > previously)
> 
> OK, make that "Yesterday", oops.
> 
> But in general, the symtoms I've seen are:
> 
> 1. Random crashing
> 
> 2. The firefox UI freezes for about 5-10 seconds, followed by either
>    normal behavior (60% of the time) or a crash (40% of the time)

This may sound odd, but are you using any Motif, Lesstif, or OpenMotif
applications?  I've seen Motif apps screw up the clipboard handling so
badly that FireFox will freeze for 5-10 seconds at a stretch trying to
acquire the selection (for example, when you focus the URL bar).  But
I've never seen a crash.

FWIW I use FireFox with XFWM and GNOME.