Firefox bugs [was: Re:dont install latest flash plugin]

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

On Sunday 10 June 2007 15:40, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
> |
> |   I say "almost" because Firefox will crash every few days if
> | I leave it up 24x7, but FF v2 does that even without Flash
> | (memory leaks, I think).  And I had to turn off sound alerts in
> | Gmail - extensive testing with a patient friend proved that his
> | sending me a message in the pager when I was on another virtual
> | desktop was guaranteed to crash Firefox.
>
> Firefox does have serious bugs.  They probably won't get fixed
> without them being reported.
>
> One I experience once in a while is this:
>   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263160
> It causes Firefox the exit unexpectedly (technically it isn't a
> crash).
>
> It is hard to reproduce and so maintainers are not getting much
> traction on it.
>
> If you have a bug that causes Firefox to crash reproduceably, by
> all means report it.  It may be a version of an already reported
> bug.  In any case you may have something valuable to contribute.

Firefox 2 "disappears" frequently on my machine and quite often, I do 
not even notice until I try to use it and see that it is no longer 
running. I have not noticed any discernible pattern for when this 
happens. It could have something to do with one of the extensions. I 
notice that my bookmarks sidebar is now grey so if I want to access 
my bookmarks, I have to open up the editor. I stopped adding new 
bookmarks to any of my browsers months ago and started using 
Mag.nolia.com and have been generally happy with that so not being 
able to access my local bookmarks is just an annoyance I have to deal 
with when I want to access my "legacy" bookmarks.
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Clifford Ilkay
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