Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András 
Csányi did opine thusly:

> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it just me?  Or does Firefox get slower every release?  And less
> > stable.
> > 
> > I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons (xmarks,
> > AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing.  Seg fault
> > sometimes.  I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does
> > not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla)  and re-emerge.
> > Grrrrrr.
> 
> Use Chrome/Chromium. At my gentoo the fox won't even start. I don't
> know why, I won't to know why... I'm tired about Firefox. :S


If you run Firefox from a terminal, do you get an error about xpcom?

If so, you need revdep-rebuild and possibly re-merge nss.
It's all in the build elogs.




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