Start over with a new profile & see how things go. Then add ONE plugin & see how things go.
Then add ONE MORE plugin & see how things go. And so on. Scott -- R. Scott Granneman sc...@granneman.com ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits." ---Albert Einstein On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett <jlrbenn...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > The Firefox that came with the default install is the one in use which > I believe includes these extensions. Thanks for the suggestion. > > @Robert, although I am not much for going through logs (they are mostly > greek to me), your suggestion did get me thinking (and searching some more.) > Clearly, the problem must be something unique to this install (as you > mentioned > your hardy machines are fine.) I now believe the video drivers must be the > culprit. I really struggled with getting the video working properly at > install time > and getting the proper nVidia drivers installed. I think it has an older > GeForce TV > out card (whichever one HP used on their desktops seven years ago.) I guess > that > is the next thing I will try. Thanks for your suggestions, too. Further > suggestions > or recommendations are still welcome. > > Best Regards, > > Robert Bennett > > > > > Mike Bigalke wrote: > > Do you have the Ubuntu Firefox Extensions installed? That might fix a few > things. > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Robert & Janet Bennett > <jlrbenn...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> >> Friends, frankly my linux evangelism efforts could be going better. >> You see, I installed 32-bit Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, Hardy Heron, on an HP >> Pentium 4 >> Desktop with 512 MGs RAM for my sister and Firefox 3.0.10 crashes >> FREQUENTLY on her. The plug-ins / addons installed are mozilla-vlc, >> ad block plus, java6, and flash. Further, some of the about:config mods >> were applied that were recommendations to keep firefox from being such >> a memory hog. >> >> She is a heavy facebook user, and also frequently uses yahoo webmail, >> and youtube. >> >> We have tried installing nspluginwrapper followed by removing and >> reinstalling >> flash-nonfree -- no help, in fact it appeared to make it worse. >> >> We also tried removing the wins entry from the nsswitch.conf file -- no >> help as the >> wins entry was never there. >> >> Just in case it matters, she gets internet access from a USB Wireless >> dongle (I hate that word.) >> >> As an alternative, I suggested using Opera which has always been rock >> solid stable for me (which was >> already installed and which we had used before on this installation.) >> Opera WILL NOT LOAD WEB PAGES. >> In the Opera profile folder (.opera) we tried renaming the opera6.ini >> file -- no help -- same problem. We then moved the entire opera profile >> folder to the trash -- no help -- same problem. Opera will still not >> load web pages. This is the most up to date 32-bit opera install (the >> dynamic version as the qt libraries are already present.) >> >> Any recommendations or suggestions on anything further to try to fix >> either Firefox and/or Opera (preferably Firefox) would be much >> appreciated. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Robert Bennett >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
