Firefox 3 - random crashes

[Dotan Cohen]

> about:crashes would aggregate your crash information as soon as you report
> them to Mozilla. Some Linux distributions are compiling Firefox without the
> crash reporter, in order to make the software more similar to their other
> applications and use the distribution crash reporter instead, so you'll
> report your crashes to them instead of the software developers team. I have
> wrote about this issue in my blog - http://tomercohen.com/2009/02/27/?p=537
>
> In order to solve your issue, please download Firefox binaries directly from
> Mozilla and run it instead of your distro Firefox. Than, when Firefox will
> crash (in case it will), you'll prompted to report your crash to Mozilla and
> than you will be able to review your information in about:crashes.

Thanks for that tip, I will also use the Mozilla binaries.

> Beside this, I am almost sure your crash isn't because of Firefox but Flash.
> Adobe Flash Player is very unstable application in Linux, and sometimes
> crash the browser or more dangerous stuff.
>

I have not found this to be the case with Flash 10, which I am very
impressed with. I am using the 32 bit version.

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