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Happens in Salix Xfce 13.1.2 and 13.2alpha1.
After a fresh install av Salix, firefox (with only the Flash plugin installed) works for a while, but after few visits to webpages containing flash it crashes all the time.
After disabling the flashplayer plugin in Firefox and uninstalling it from Salix, it still crashes all the time, to a point where it's impossible to start it unless unistalling it, removing the profile files and reinstalling it. but it happens all over again after few minutes of web surfing.

FF crash reporter does not give me any clues to solve this.
Have tried several FF versions, 3.5.2, 3.6.5, 3.6.12 etc.
dmesg and /var/log/messages don't show anything after the crash.
Is there any way to figure out what libraries/plugins are causing this so I can try to fix it?

ANY kind of help would really be appreciated

Which webpages would that be?

In any case, it seems that you most probably have severe hardware problems. Firefox should not crash all the time and it doesn't.

RIght it should not crash frequently...
See if these speed tips help quell the problem..

Open your Firefox and type about:config at URL address bar and hit enter. To make a False into True, select the line to change, and double click or Right click and choose Toogle. On the 2nd option change, right click and select Modify

- network.http.pipelining > Make it True

- network.http.pipelining.maxrequests > Make it 8 or 10

- network.http.proxy.pipelining > Make it True

- network.dns.disableIPv6 > Make it True

I suggest to run http://www.memtest86.com/

Thank you all for your tips.
The computer is brand new with 4GB good quality Ram, however maybe the ram is corrupted, will get it checked and run the memtest on it.
It can happen in ANY page, sometimes by just scrolling down the page!
I'll try FF config changes and post back the result, as soon as I can get it running first

khash777 wrote:Thank you all for your tips.
The computer is brand new with 4GB good quality Ram, however maybe the ram is corrupted, will get it checked and run the memtest on it.

Yep, it could be corrupted even if it is new. I've bought another 4 GB Kingston RAM (I already have the exact same type in my PC) two weeks ago and it made my PC crash after 1 hour. Had to remove it to get a stable machine again.

Thank you thenktor for the memtest program I ran it and it did find many errors in the RAM! didn't know that a brand new RAM could get corrupted?!
So am getting the Ram changed and will post back with the result.

RAM testing is time consuming. Of course the manufacturers run test, but it takes to long to test every cell multiple times. Even then you cannot be sure