Firefox is terrible!

Slavo · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 229

Firefox 1.0.4 is extremely unstable - it crashes randomly, when playing media, when opening document files - just terrible. I tried a lot of solutions found here, none of them fixed that completely and it seems like nobody found a real cause of those problems. So I'm gonna switch to another browser - any recommendations? Of course, no binaries so no Opera.

ph03n1x · l33t Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 756

Hmm I cannot confirm that. I'm using 1.04 as well.

I would suggest you try compiling it with less agressive CFLAGS / USEFLAGS. When u use a kernel like hardened sources, switching to the vanilla gcc-config might also help.

Good luck

scoobydu · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

Are you using any extensions?

Some of those I have found buggy, but base 1.04 is very stable for me.
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Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal

I don't have any problem with firefox, only with flash in amd64
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Slavo · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 229

it started to crash randomly after installation of mplayerplug-in, also when i open file in external player it crashes sometimes. My CFLAGS are pretty normal (-O2 -pipe). Which USE flags may cause the problem? I have

CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
USE="-3dfx 3dnow -altivec aac audiofile acpi bash-completion bzlib cdr cdparanoia cups foomaticdb dga divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread
-emboss flac ftp gstreamer gtk2 icq aim java -lirc matroska -matrox mozilla msn mysql nsl
ogg oss ppds
-sse samba scanner sockets socks5 svg tetex theora tiff usb vcd videos -voodoo3
vorbis win32codecs xine xvid x86"

ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1"

FEATURES="ccache"

CCACHE_SIZE="3G"

Jakub · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:

I don't find firefox unstable, only a bit slow.

As for recommendations, you could try konqueror (if you use KDE) - it's very fast, responsive, stable, customizable, great for viewing pdfs (kpdf part), embedded media files (kmplayer part) or text files (kate part). The next version should have the brand new adblock extension.

ph03n1x · l33t Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 756

Hmm I dont see anything unusual in your config.

Maybe recompiling the hole thing, mozilla-launcher included, helps. Try to deactivate plugins/extensions first to see if that causes the problems...

Obi-Lan · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:39 am Post subject:

For me, Firefox Flash pluging makes xmms crash sometimes. Quite annoying.

IvanYosifov · l33t Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 778 Location: Bulgaria

matroskin · Apprentice Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 214

if you have flash plugins, that can be another cause.
Delete them (backup first) and try again:

Here the places to look
~/.mozilla/plugins/
~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>plugins/
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IvanYosifov · l33t Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 778 Location: Bulgaria

Or just unmerge it if you are using net-www/netscape-flash. This has not caused me problems though.

Omega21 · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject:

Those are a lot of USE flags, perhaps omitting ones that are less useful would help?

Firefox 1.0.4 seems OK here...
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eean · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

rwf · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 234 Location: mi.us

I found mplayerplug-in (2.80) unstable with firefox (1.0.4) IF the plug-in was compiled with the -gtk2 USE flag. I haven't checked if the same holds true for the 2.85 version, but nothing in the ChangeLog seems to indicate they fixed the problem/issue.