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

[Jamon Camisso]

Clive DaSilva wrote:
> 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.
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>>   
> I have had some experience with FF bugs which seem to get fixed as they 
> send out upgrades (in my opinion anyway). My biggest problem is with 
> Thunderbird 1.5.0 which right up to 1.5.0.9, the program freezes and 
> crashes when I try to save an attachment to a folder on my network via 
> Samba. I have a Mandriva Linux box and 2 Win XP boxes on the network
> 

Try Thunderbird 2.0. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Jamon
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