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Titel: Firefox locking up.
 Verfasst am: 09.08.2006, 11:48 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 12. Mar 2004
Beiträge: 275
Wohnort: Paris-France
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Firefox keeps locking up, especially on certain sites.
These are usually ones which render badly in konqueror if that helps.
However it locks up terminally, affecting other apps using NW access as well.
I suspect its when it try's to block something.
The last address I tried was ...
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0 ... 308,0.html
I know others can use it on the previous version I was using (since they are also running kanotix)
The prefs shows no plug-ins etc. and I just updated to the latest FF .
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-1) |
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Titel: RE: Firefox locking up.
Verfasst am: 09.08.2006, 14:40 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 26. Jun 2005
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| Well, I have had some freezes in a situation where I tried to do something before the page completely loads, like using the mouse scroll wheel to scroll down the page, or clicking on a link on the page that is loading. Needed a reset as even keyboard gives no response. No clue why though. This is a recent phenomenon. I'm at 1.5.0.6 too. |
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Verfasst am: 09.08.2006, 15:03 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 12. Mar 2004
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Wohnort: Paris-France
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ahh good point...
What I forgot to mention was it started that the keyboard wouldn't type.
I could actually use mouse buttons to cut and paste text for instance and then press go but not type an address.
Now its so bad i am using konq. only... |
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Verfasst am: 09.08.2006, 15:27 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 26. Jun 2005
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| *sigh*. Just froze again. And this time without my doing anything. I'm probably using opera until the next update. |
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Verfasst am: 09.08.2006, 16:05 Uhr
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Wohnort: Paris-France
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Ahh success it seems!
Start firefox with
firefox -safe-mode
delete everything (assumning bookmarks are backed up)
restart ... and import bookmarks.
The ref page I have been using as a test now loads. |
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Verfasst am: 09.08.2006, 20:29 Uhr
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What I have been reading reguarding the lockups with firefox (in both windows and linux) is java & flash sites that have been locking up , not saying that is your problem, but "can" be a problem .  |
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Verfasst am: 09.08.2006, 20:58 Uhr
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Anmeldung: 15. Jul 2006
Beiträge: 136
Wohnort: Spanaway, Wa
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Have you ever thought about using nightly builds? I just clicked on the referenced link and it popped right up, firefox did block one popup and when I allowed that it was an ad for computers. I know what they say about nightlys and they are untested, etc but think about what we are using, Kanotix, don't think it is based on a stable release of debian. If the nightly has problems, wait a day and get the next one or just back up a day. I had one instance where I had to back up a whole week before I found a good one. This is what I am using:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060806 Minefield/3.0a1
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Verfasst am: 10.08.2006, 02:04 Uhr
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Found 1 extension that needed an update. Also updated the theme I'm using. Hopefully that's it.  |
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Verfasst am: 10.08.2006, 02:55 Uhr
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The first thing to do when you have a firefox problem is assume profile corruption, so make a new profile, blank.
To start firefox with profile manager, just use the run command: firefox -profilemanager
this will bring up the profile manager, make a new one, then start in that.
Once you have determined if it was a corrupted profile/ extension conflict, import the user settings from your old profile using the link below to show you which files to copy over to the new profile. See if it runs stably then. If yes, it's an extension issue. Start installing the most solid extensions, avoid the more secondary ones some people are so fond of adding just because they can.
Surf as normal, if the browser no longer crashes, it's a corrupted profile.
Sometimes people go way overboard with extensions, and run far too many. And then the extensions start conficting with each other.
If you have this installed: gtk2-engines-gtk-qt
get rid of it, apt-get remove --purge gtk2-engines-gtk-qt
Anyone having firefox problems with that gkt qt junk running may encounter severe issues. If you have this installed, look no further, remove it completely, restart kde.
There are also some optimization things you can do to correct some of the very bad default choices 1.5 was delivered with. Here is a thread with links to known firefox extension issues. Most of those have been fixed from what I've seen, but you never know. Here's a thread on reducing firefox memory/ram consumption, that's the first thing I do to my firefoxes now usually, the 1.5 defaults were EXTREMELY poorly thought out, absolutely unforgiveable in my opinion. When your firefox is correctly set up it usually requires not much more than 50-75 mB, if not correctly setup, it can try to grab upto several hundred megabytes of ram, which is totally ridiculous for a single applicatoin as simle as a browser.
I've never used the minimize thing to give up ram, it's not necessary. Prefetch is about the dumbest idea I've ever seen put out by anyone, and it does nothing worth having. I've played around with the session history and have found that setting it to 1 works very well, and still gives a little performance boost without hogging all your available ram.
Whatever you do, don't dump all your bookmarks, cookies, etc, those aren't the problem. This thread shows which files to copy to transfer your user data in firefox profile.
In the cases above, first check to see if that gtk qt thing is installed, if it is, dump it.
Second, check with a new profile, see if that stabilized firefox. If it does, it's extremely likely that you simply went overboard with extensions. If you use a theme, make sure it's a well done one, stable. |
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