Do you have the Ubuntu Firefox Extensions installed? That might fix a few things.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett < [email protected]> wrote: > > > Friends, frankly my linux evangelism efforts could be going better. > You see, I installed 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, Hardy Heron, on an HP > Pentium 4 > Desktop with 512 MGs RAM for my sister and Firefox 3.0.10 crashes > FREQUENTLY on her. The plug-ins / addons installed are mozilla-vlc, > ad block plus, java6, and flash. Further, some of the about:config mods > were applied that were recommendations to keep firefox from being such > a memory hog. > > She is a heavy facebook user, and also frequently uses yahoo webmail, > and youtube. > > We have tried installing nspluginwrapper followed by removing and > reinstalling > flash-nonfree -- no help, in fact it appeared to make it worse. > > We also tried removing the wins entry from the nsswitch.conf file -- no > help as the > wins entry was never there. > > Just in case it matters, she gets internet access from a USB Wireless > dongle (I hate that word.) > > As an alternative, I suggested using Opera which has always been rock > solid stable for me (which was > already installed and which we had used before on this installation.) > Opera WILL NOT LOAD WEB PAGES. > In the Opera profile folder (.opera) we tried renaming the opera6.ini > file -- no help -- same problem. We then moved the entire opera profile > folder to the trash -- no help -- same problem. Opera will still not > load web pages. This is the most up to date 32-bit opera install (the > dynamic version as the qt libraries are already present.) > > Any recommendations or suggestions on anything further to try to fix > either Firefox and/or Opera (preferably Firefox) would be much appreciated. > > Thank you, > > Robert Bennett > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
