Firefox 3 - random crashes

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 09:33:14AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> Ever since upgraging from Firefox 2.* to 3.0.7, 

How have you upgraded exactly? What distribution? From what packages?

> the browser randomly but 
> FREQUENTLY closes for no **apparent** reason. Unfortunatly, about:crashes 
> doesn't seem to work on Linux, so I have no idea where to look for the 
> reason. I've looked at all the usual logs and ~/.mozilla/* and found nothing. 
> Is there a Firefox specific log I should be looking at?
> 
> To clarify one point, the browser is always open on my machine, but often (2 
> or 3 times a day), when I come back to the computer, Firefox has closed. So 
> it's not happening when I try to get to a particular site, but when the 
> browser is "idle". In fact, I don't rememmber ever having a crash when trying 
> to load a site.

The script that starts firefox disabls output. Which is annoying.

For starters, start it with:

  strace -f -o firefox_trace firefox

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