Re: Firefox crashing on gmail

["Brian Durant" <interlists@gmail.com>]

Hi Albert,

On 12/6/06, Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> > On 12/6/06, Santanu Chatterjee <thisissantanu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > >After reading this thread, I searched for a solution with renewed
> > >enthusiasm, and just now found this:
> > >---------------------------------------
> > >https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/27626
> > >---------------------------------------
> > >There someone mentioned that the problem occurs only with
> > >DefaultDepth=16, not with 24bit depth. Sure enough, my xorg.conf
> > >had "DefaultDepth 16", changed it to use 24 bit, and firefox works
> > >normally now. In fact, I am writing this via gmail using firefox right
> > >now. <snip>
> >
> > Where is xorg.conf located? I am experiencing the same problem as well.
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Thanks. The interesting thing is that my xorg.conf already reads
"DefaultDepth 24". I was positive that this was the same problem that
I was experiencing - system freeze/crash with Gmail and Firefox. Hmm.
As soon as I stopped using Firefox to read my Gmail account, the
problem went away.

> though for users not used to it, maybe doing a
> "dpkg-reconfigure -plowi xerver-xorg" would be better
> (of course only if your xorg.conf was generated that way)
>
> (have not tried it, i haven't expierencend this bug sinc'e i don't use
> gmail, and my x is running on 24bpp anyway...)
>
> yours
> albert
> - --
> Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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Cheers,

Brian