[cwelug] Re: Firefox frequently crashing

[Robert & Janet Bennett]

The Firefox that came with the default install is the one in use which I believe includes these extensions.  Thanks for the suggestion. @Robert, although I am not much for going through logs (they are mostly greek to me), your suggestion did get me thinking (and searching some more.) Clearly, the problem must be something unique to this install (as you mentioned your hardy machines are fine.)  I now believe the video drivers must be the culprit.  I really struggled with getting the video working properly at install time and getting the proper nVidia drivers installed.  I think it has an older GeForce TV out card (whichever one HP used on their desktops seven years ago.)  I guess that is the next thing I will try.  Thanks for your suggestions, too.  Further suggestions or recommendations are still welcome. Best Regards, Robert Bennett Mike Bigalke wrote: 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 <jlrbenn...@sbcglobal.net> 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: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---