[NBLUG/talk] firefox / gmail problems.

[E Frank Ball III]

setting "export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" made it a little more stable,
but not much.  I looked at the webpage referenced, but I was already
using 24 bit color, and I couldn't figure out the Composite setting in
xorg they were talking about.

I ended up making a new firefox profile, which is major pain having to
re-install all my extensions, but it seems to be working fine now.

   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com


On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:21:12PM -0800, Scrappy Laptop wrote:
 > I've been having a similar problem with FF and Gmail but instead of hanging, it was crashing out completely whenever I hit a page that had certain Flash elements (which includes Gmail), leaving me back at the desktop.  Finally found this post that fixed it:
 > http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2006/10/ubuntu-firefox-flash-crash-this-fix.html
 > 
 > Summary: add the following line
 > export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1
 > to /usr/bin/firefox.
 > 
 > Although the symptoms are not identical, it may be a direction to research (does no harm to try it, either).
 > 
 > -Frank
 > 
 > E Frank Ball III <frankb at frankb.us> wrote: Since I updated to firefox 2.0.0.9 - gmail is pretty much unusable.
 > Firefox completely hangs everytime I try to read some emails.  I may get
 > thru one or two, but then it hangs.
 > 
 > This is happening on three systems.  One with RedHat Enterprise 4, one
 > with Debian testing, and one with Debian stable.  All with firefox
 > installed from mozilla.org - not a packaged version from Debian or
 > redhat.  All three are independent systems, no shared files.
 > 
 > Anybody else having trouble?  Other web sites are working fine, it's
 > just gmail that causes the problem.
 > 
 > -- 
 > 
 >    E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us

   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us