I would check to see what Add ons you have installed. I suspect that you have an Add On or Plugin that is not compatible.
I have these and they are OK: Tic Tac (This lets you type right to left in GMail and others) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5814 Session Manager (remembers your open Tabs for when you reopen Firefox) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Session+Manager&cat=all Dictionary choose the language English UK or US https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 Hspell for Hebrew (Hebrew spell checker https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Hebrew&cat=3%2C0 Colorful Tabs (each tab appears in its own distictive colour. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/policy/0/1368/37117 Dictionary Switcher (bounce between Hebrew & English Dictionaries) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Dictionary+Switcher&cat=all Locale Switcher (bounce between Hebrew & English Dictionaries) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=Dictionary+Switcher&cat=all PDF Downloader Good for deciding how to download an Acrobat PDF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636 Download Helper Download youtube movies easily and some others https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006 Aeons gives (fantastic buttons for the browser) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/166 Cooliris Helps (you browse very fast indeed) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207 Download it all (Mass file downloader helper) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:5 Save Complete (save the complete webpage your viewing) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4723 Sifrei Kodesh Search, Tanach Mishneh etc (Nice Add On that works great!) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2820 Download a new version and install it. In the past this is how I got over the problem. Also some Cookies are so friendly that they do damage also. Moshe --- On Fri, 20/3/09, Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Shlomo Solomon <shlomo.solo...@gmail.com> > Subject: Firefox 3 - random crashes > To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Date: Friday, 20 March, 2009, 9:33 AM > > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > Ever since upgraging from Firefox > 2.* to 3.0.7, the browser randomly but > FREQUENTLY closes for no **apparent** reason. Unfortunatly, > about:crashes > doesn't seem to work on Linux, so I have no idea where to > look for the > reason. I've looked at all the usual logs and ~/.mozilla/* > and found nothing. > Is there a Firefox specific log I should be looking at? > > To clarify one point, the browser is always open on my > machine, but often (2 > or 3 times a day), when I come back to the computer, > Firefox has closed. So > it's not happening when I try to get to a particular site, > but when the > browser is "idle". In fact, I don't rememmber ever having a > crash when trying > to load a site. > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il