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edoc · Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2006, 12:48 Post_subject: SeaMonkey Crashing on Laptop

Puppy 2.10r1 HDD install.

Two Web sites open, nothing unusual, just GoDaddy and FoxNews plus E-mail.

SeaMonkey crashes without warning and takes everything down.

Anyone seeing this?

Any ideas?

Instability is an undocumented feature of MS products, not Linux! Smile

Thanks! doc

Béèm · Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 513 Location: Brussels

edoc · Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2006, 14:29 Post_subject: Re: SeaMonkey Crashing on Laptop

Béèm · Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 513 Location: Brussels

Nathan F · Posted: Sun 15 Oct 2006, 21:47 Post_subject:

As always, guys, when experiencing problems run the program from the command line and look for what errors pop up when trouble hits. In the case of seamonkey use the 'mozstart' command.

Nathan

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I was having this same problem, see here:

http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=11508

For example it would bomb when visiting wikipedia.org.

I took Nathan's advice, went to wikipedia.org, and got this result in the terminal window:

edoc · Posted: Wed 18 Oct 2006, 10:56 Post_subject:

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I don't know what "segmentation fault" means, but I do know it is bad. Laughing

It seems Seamonkey is now at 1.0.5. The changelog for that revision describes several fixes of crashes.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/seamonkey1.0.5/changelog.html

Maybe ours is one of them. I tried to click on the second to last link describing the crash, and Seamonkey bombed! Rolling Eyes

Does everybody else get a crash when going to wikipedia.org? How about in Puppy 2.11? I suppose it should be the same, since it is still Seamonkey 1.0.4...

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I have upgraded to Puppy 2.11 (looks nice and refined, with that reworked boot Smile

), went to wikipedia.org and Seamonkey crashed again. Hope Seamonkey 1.0.5 fixes it, and I hope we get it in a Puppy release soon.

MU · Posted: Sat 21 Oct 2006, 00:59 Post_subject:

Seamonkey 1.0.5 also crashes sometimes, too.
Especially flash seems to be a reason.
I use almost only Konqueror from KDE, it is faster, and crashes almost never.
But I use no flash in it.

Mark

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

Mark, excuse the dumb question, but what do you mean by "flash"? I looked in the browser preferences to find something referring to flash, but didn't see it.

Béèm · Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 513 Location: Brussels

flash is the flash player, used in browsers like SeaMonkey and others. There is a separate thread about it.

MU · Posted: Sat 21 Oct 2006, 15:57 Post_subject:

flash is a plugin:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so

It is needed for some multimedia-content on webpages.
As flash often is used for commercials on newssites, I do not use it in Konqueror.
So pages load faster and are more stable.

In seamonkey you could deactivate it by renaming the file to
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so--

Then restart seamonkey.

With flash, you can see these tutorials:
http://rhinoweb.us
without flash, no animation is visible.

I personally use Konqueror as everyday-browser without flash, and Seamonkey only seldom for sites with flash like the tutorials (the tutorials don't crash it).

Mark

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

the Flash intro on Adrienne Barbeau's webpage seems to crash Firefox and Seamonkey if you click Enter ... with the Flash 9 beta anyway ... i hate Flash navigation

easy enough to bypass ...
http://www.google.ca/search?&as_sitesearch=abarbeau.com

http://abarbeau.com/adriennebarbeau_home.html

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

and Rhino's Flash crashes Firefox with Flash 9 beta, Puppy 211, when you close the Flash tab

Flash 7 doesn't crash on Rhino's animations