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
>
>
>
> >
>

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