On 09/12/2005 11:46 AM, Marlier, Ian wrote:
<snip> The vast majority of crashes that I've seen in Firefox have been a result of corrupt files in the profile. This is true across platforms: linux, macosx, and windows.
If you've clean installed and are seeing the same issues -- and almost everyone else isn't, apparently -- it might actually be time to check your system for faults. Mozilla is a very active program, and it might be that you've got a bad piece of RAM somewhere that Mozilla happens to be the program hitting. I run a 1-pass memtest every time I upgrade the installation, the most recent one 5 weeks ago. Just so there would be no misunderstanding, I just ran another one -- 5 passes. There is no memory error.
There are enough ongoing reports of segfaults, dating from 1998 until now, that I would not be so sure this is a rare problem.