[Novalug] FireFox Crashes

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Roger W. Broseus wrote:

> FireFox crashes repeatedly and consistently for me. Just after opening or
> opening a web page. Very frustrating - can't get through reading one page!
>
> I've waited several days, hoping that the difficulty would go away with
> updates - still problematic. Clearing the cache, etc., are of no help. For
> awhile FireFox sync was flailing but that problem seems to have gone away.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and FF updates download from
> ppa.launchad.net/mozillateam/ppa/firefox-stable/ubuntu lucid
>
> Any ideas before I un-install / re-install?
>

I have an older system with a GB of memory and a 2003 athlon cpu. A 
while ago as Ubuntu moved to Maverick I started getting crashes (they 
would consist of a freeze up and then a kernal panic - - you know 
where the two lights on the upper right of the keyboard start 
flashing) were mostly after I opened Firefox. I finally decided it might 
be not enough  memory. So I removed the gnome desktop and installed 
xfce. Things are much better now although I still get the occasional 
freeze up from some web pages that I think are running large scripts 
or music or whatever. (I do not have speakers hooked up to this computer 
so music is inaudable).

It took me a little while to tweak XFCE to the way I liked but I am 
happy with it now.

In the future I will install UbuntuStudio since it is going to be 
using XFCE as the desktop application.

>

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