On Sun, June 1, 2014 7:51 pm, Christopher Gregory wrote: > On Sun, June 1, 2014 7:23 pm, thorsten wrote: > >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> So far this version of firefox has not dumped its core. I do not >>> have at this stage any plugins installed. >>> >>> Does anyone know of any plugins that you should NOT install because >>> they crash firefox? >> >> I don't know if this is related, but I had crashes of Firefox on some >> sites too. My Firefox was compiled against cairo, this is where the >> segfault happened. This is the bug in cairo: >> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77931 >> >> >> >> the fix is >> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=97959 >> >> >> >> my cairo is 1.12.16. >> >> >> regards, >> >> thorsten >> > > Hello Thorsten, > > > This is most probably the cause. I have no additional plugins installed > and yet this version of firefox is periodically dumping its core. I will > apply that patch and see what happens. Thanks for this. > > Does the development team think that this patch should be made available > on linuxfromscratch.org? I have no idea how many people have experienced > this crashing. If this patch solves it for me as well, we have at least > two people who have solved this issue. > > Regards, > > > Christopher. > > >
Hello Thorsten, I have now applied that patch to cario and re-installed it. When you applied this patch, did you need to also re-compile firefox? I would rather not recompile if I can get away with it. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
