On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:01:30 +0100, Nuno Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On ons, 02 feb 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:39:26 -0500, Thomas Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > > * On Feb  2  5:07, comsatcat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) thusly jotted:
> > > > As of two days ago, firefox started to randomly lockup.  Things will
> > > > work fine for awhile, then when I go to a random site, it will just lock
> > > > solid.  The only way I've been able to get it to not lock up is to rm
> > > > -rf /tmp/*.  Does anyone know which files may be causing the lockup or
> > > > does anyone have a solution for this?
> > >
> > > I can't say I've had it lock up, but it's definitely crashed a lot
> > > recently.  It always occurs when trying to open a new site, but will not
> > > reoccur when I revisit the site later.  I can't say I've noticed anything
> > > strange in /tmp though...
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > p.s. to be fair, "a lot" means more than usual.  Nothing really crashes
> > > often.
> > >
> >
> > The only crash activity I've seen is: randomly when selecting the back
> > key while viewing a PDF document.
> 
> Hi,
> are you sure the problem is Firefox ?
> I doubt! and you are using Xorg, right ?
> Well look here.
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80642
> 

Thanks for the info. Maybe this will help others, but this is not my
problem. My problem is

1. Not a freeze or hang condition; browser always dies, but nothing
else is affected.
2. Seldom reproducible, very random.
3. Always associated with use of acroread, and usually after printing
from acroread.

-- 
 Collins

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