Firefox Degraded
Since the latest Ubuntu automated update, the newly-installed Firefox
version, 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.9-0ubuntu0.6.06, has been
unstable, crashing on simple pages. It seems to be able to work with
some pages, but crashes on other pages of similar complexity. The most
recent headache has involved a mailman
generated page the code for which is trivial. (It's the adminstrator
authentication page.)
The first thing I tried was creating a fresh firefox user profile. The page loaded successfully once, but crashed each subsequent attempt.
Then I downloaded the page using wget, and loaded it from disk. No crash. If I loaded the page from disk, authenticated, then clicked the link for "administrative interface", firefox crashes.
On the server machine, I made a static copy of the page, and loaded it (via the apache server running there), and no crash occurred. I could authenticate and look at the pending administrative requests. This time when I clicked "administrative interface", firefox did not crash. I reloaded the page several times to be sure.
I have a gut feeling the problem is not related to the the markup or rendering but to the handling of the http request.
Friends using ubuntu (but a different versions of firefox) report the page loads for them without problem.
So far, no solution has presented it self, short of upgrading firefox outside the ubuntu package management system, which I would do with another Linux distro, like fedora. It seems in such conflict with the ubuntu, linux-for-everyone ideal, though, that my pragmatism is being overridden by my principle.
After enough of not being able to conveniently administer my lists, though, I'm sure my pragmatism will throttle my idealism into submission.
Enough of that pain; now it's time to go to the dentist.
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