Stats: Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 / Beryl Firefox 2.0 Xorg set to 24bit Color (no other color depths defined in xorg.conf) AMD 64 X2 4800+ 4 GB Dual Channel RAM 107 GB Ubuntu Partiton (7.04GB used) EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO 512 MB GDDR3 (with nVidia's most recent _STABLE_ drivers)
I agree. Firefox is at best useless with these problems. If you're running a web-based admin app when Firefox crashes, you could even do enough damage to your system to require a complete reinstall of linux, or at least make it very difficult to fix. To make things worse, Beryl requires both ARGB_Visuals and Composite to function proberly, and with Edgy and the new nVidia drivers making Beryl much easier to install, the number of people running it is growing very rapidly, making these workarounds completely unacceptable. This needs to be fixed, and yesterday if not sooner. Another problem that seems related (at least on my system) is that Firefox sometimes slows to a crawl, grabs almost 100% of _both_ CPU core's cycles, and then freezes entirely on the next navigation (or exit) attempt, after contacting the site I'm navigating to but before starting to redraw the screen, and with no crash report generated. The only way to get Firefox back when this happens is to force-quit the active window and kill every process containing the string "firefox" in it's name with Gnome System Monitor. BTW, this is my second attempt at posting, as Firefox crashed during my first. I'm starting to feel like I'm back in M$ Windoze :( I would simply remove all Flash support, but I use a number of sites that do not function without it, including, it seems, my bank's online banking services. I don't think very many other people would want to remove Flash, either. Here's the crash report (WARNING: Full crash report - 16+ MB): ** Attachment added: "Full Crash Report - Firefox" http://librarian.launchpad.net/5359948/_usr_lib_firefox_firefox-bin.1000.crash -- Flash plugin problem with ARGB visuals causes crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/14911 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
