[NTLUG:Discuss] Mozilla crash issues

[Peter A. Koren]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 11:04, NTLUG wrote:

I have been having the same problem with Mozilla ever since I started
using it as far back as version 1.0. It is not as bad as it used to be,
but it is still an occasional problem. I have been using various
Mandrake distributions with the Mozilla supplied as an RPM, but have
also used tarballs on upgrading between distribution upgrades to avoid
the RPM dependency hassle.

-- Pete

> I have mozilla 1.6, (not rpm installed).  Everything works fine.  But
> periodically and its starting again, It will crash, closing all open
> windows, everything.  Previous google and archive searches tell me to
> delete the profile, if that doesn't work delete the entire .mozilla
> diretory, this does take care of the problem for a month or two, and the
> problem begins to creep in.  First a crash once a week, then a couple of
> times a week, accelerating until it crashes after about 1 minute or two.
> 
> My question is - what is the problem and what can I do to prevent it. 
> yes I can redo my profile pretty simply.  But why should I need to...you
> would figure an issue like this would be pretty high on the "to fix"
> list of the folks at mozilla.