UNIX admin wrote: >>I, for my part, will continue to use the old fat 1.7 >>Suite (plus a >>selfbuilt SeaMonkey on another box). >>Yes, I also have disabled the Flash plugin. >>It therefore never crashes now, and nothing gets >>lost. >> >> > >It would seem that this flash plugin is the source of lot of grief. I have the >feeling that whoever at Macromedia ported this software to Solaris, basically >just got it to compile and that was that. It's much slower than the Windows >version on the same hardware, which tells me it hasn't been optimized for >Solaris at all. > >Who can lobby Macromedia to fix this? When I did a core dump stack strace of >Mozilla, it always crashed in the t_splay() function. >
It never (the truth!) crashed here (Mozilla 1.7 / sparc / Flash always disabled and never installed or used after 2004). I therefore did not have a need or chance to analyze any related core dump (while it is interesting to hear). Mozilla1.7 itself is both fast and reliable on my Blade2000s. I strictly don't use Flash anymore, because one frequently visited site ( www.kmelektronik.de ) froze the whole Mozilla process back then, each time I tried to visit that site the mozilla process had been completely unresponsive for circa 10 minutes. Without Flash: I never ever had any instability with Mozilla (except, more than circa 500 tabs are open in all windows combined). And even then didn't it crash instantly. One could still close and save all open documents, bookmarks, emails, you name it, as long as you avoided trying to click-close the "hanging tab". -- Martin Bochnig _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
