On 21 September 2010 00:23, Beau Henderson <b...@thehenderson.com> wrote: > On 09/19/10 20:02, András Csányi wrote: >> >> On 19 September 2010 10:09, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Apparently, though unproven, at 00:28 on Sunday 19 September 2010, András >>> Csányi did opine thusly: >>> >>>> On 19 September 2010 00:14, Kevin O'Gorman<kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less >>>>> stable. >>>>> >>>>> I got myself up to the latest, and I cannot install my 4 add-ons >>>>> (xmarks, >>>>> AdBlockPlus, Noscript, Stumble-upon) without it crashing. Seg fault >>>>> sometimes. I've got ECC memory, and no reported problems, and it does >>>>> not help to clear the profiles (rename ~/.mozilla) and re-emerge. >>>>> Grrrrrr. >>>> >>>> Use Chrome/Chromium. At my gentoo the fox won't even start. I don't >>>> know why, I won't to know why... I'm tired about Firefox. :S >>> >>> >>> If you run Firefox from a terminal, do you get an error about xpcom? >>> >>> If so, you need revdep-rebuild and possibly re-merge nss. >>> It's all in the build elogs. >> >> Hi Alan, >> >> I have tried to start from terminal, but no message. I have tried to >> run after revdep-rebuild but nothing. I have installed binary version >> but the result was the same. >> After these I have tried strace and if I remenber correctly it stopped >> with segmentation fault. Unfortunately I can't reproduce this problem >> because few days ago I changed my system from 32 bit to 64 bit. Here >> everything is working fine according firefox. >> >> I know I should have report it but, that time, I was really tired >> emotionally. :( >> > > I had this same problem and decided I had bad RAM. Before I could order any, > I rebuild my system and it happens that I did so with an image that had GCC > 4.3* rather than 4.4. Funny enough, firefox worked just fine. I did some > searching and apparently nspr has issues with a certain function enabled in > -O2 @ gcc 4.4. > > From the following: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487844 > > Apparently if you rebuild nspr @ gcc 4.4 with -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing > > I haven't confirmed this, as I haven't had time to jump back to 4.4 but if > someone can confirm this fixes the issue, I'd certainly be greatful!
Hmmm... My former system was compiled with -O3 and gcc version was the highest because I always use unstable system. -- - - -- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi -- ""Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry!" - Cromwell
