106361 - Mozilla crashes frequently

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Isaac Traxler]

I was using Build Id:2001101021 reasonably happily under 10.0.4. 

I upgraded 10 10.1

Moz crashed frequently (5 - 25 pages of use. It crashes EVERY time I press
submit  to change my password for BugZilla.

Tried current build (Oct 23 @ 10:11) with same problems.

Noticed other issues:
1) When visiting a news link for the second time MOZ would display an empty page
and say done. Toggling between news: and nntp: caused it to work for a while -
then nothing

2) When looking at news - box in upper corner never stopped. I was unable to
type in a URI in Moz and go to the page unless I closed the news reader (which
was hard to get back into because of #1

Sites I visit:
isaac.lsu.edu/class
acm2001.csc.lsu.edu
macintouch
deal-mac
slashdot

Just bouncing among these is enough to crash Moz

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Reporter, you selected "Mac System 8.5" as the OS for this bug, but you're
talking about running Mozilla under Mac OS X. Can you be more specific about
your configuration?

Also, in order to diagnose the crashes, you will need to submit crash logs.
Under OS X, you can enable CrashReporter to provide this data. See
[http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1057.html].

Comment 2

[Isaac Traxler]

Config: MacOS X - just upgraded to 10.1
PowerMac G4 dual 450 MHz

In addition to crashes - I am also experiencing hangs, ball starts twirling 
and nothing helps but a force quit. Moz does not seem to notice that the 
page has finished loading. It will consume 90+ percent of the cpu.

The Nac)S 8.5 was a mistake - I made the mistake of trying to use Moz 
and was in a hurry before it crashed/hung

Comment 3

[Isaac Traxler]

New wrinkle: After adding line to /etc/hostconfig to invoke crashdump, 
none of the three versions of Moz I have will start. All die immediately with: 
Application has unexpectantly quit.

This behavior continues even though I have commented the crashdump 
line out.

This means I can't provide a crash dump nor can I confirm anything else 
since I can't get moz to load at all.

Versions tried:
2001 10 10 9:25
2001 10 23 8:14
2001 10 26 7:26

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Could you please try starting 

'mozilla -Profilemanager'

?  Then create a new profile.  Does that fix the problems?

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Isaac. can you still reproduce this problem under 0.9.6?

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

seems fine witn 0.9.7. reopen if you disagree. thanks