Re: LUG: Firefox crashes in Lucid Lynx ? - Sat, 22 May 2010 14:43:15 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Firefox crashes in Lucid Lynx ?

From : Kevin Hunter <hunteke@earlham.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 22 May 2010 14:43:15 -0400

At 2:26pm -0400 Sat, 22 May 2010, Syed Fahd wrote:
> Has anybody else had FIrefox (or other builds of it) crash when
> 1 tab is closed in Lucid? This didn't occur in Karmic.

If it crashes, you've found a bug in Firefox. No matter who's fault it
is, Firefox is crashing, so, by definition, Firefox has the bug.

Is it 100% recreateable? With a simple test case? If so, you may be
able to find a report on launchpad about it, likely with some pointers
about how to workaround the issue. If not, create one!

What version of Ubuntu are you running? 32 bit or 64 bit? I ask
because I can attribute most of my Firefox crashes to Flash not playing
nice in a 64-bit environment.

Finally, though it doesn't answer your question, you might want to take
a look at chromium-browser in the repos. (It's the open-source project
behind Google's Chrome.) I just started using it two weeks ago and am
very impressed. It is *fast*, and, because each tab is its own process,
I haven't experienced any of that multi-second lag that plagues Firefox.
Also, thanks to each tab contained in its own sandbox, when Flash
flakes out, I lose just that tab. No others. Of course, the downside
is that the plugins aren't nearly as complete as Firefox's.

So, to actually answer your question: No. I haven't experienced any more
crashing than was normal for Karmic.

Kevin

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