gmail crashes firefox 1.5.0.6

[brian.harker]

Hi all-
I'm running Fedora Core 4 (kernel 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4) on Averatec 3200 laptop (1.67 GHz AMD Athlon XP-M, 1 GB RAM), and
I've been having this problem recently...when I log into my gmail account, firefox 1.5.0.6 crashes all instances. When run from the command line, the following error message is displayed:

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 116 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

I'm still kind of a noob, and I'd really appreciate some help. Btw, the same error is encountered in Epiphany, but Konqueror works fine. Thanks in advance !

[Dark_Stang]

Yeah, gmail crashes firefox on me sometimes as well. I kinda switch back and forth between seamonkey and firefox because of this.

I'd like to know if there's a solution to this as well...

[brian.harker]

Dark_Stang-

Does it crash on you *sometimes* or *all the time* ?

At first I thought it was a problem with the Gmail notifier extension I downloaded, but it
crashes on me even when i log in normally (without the notifier)...

*Any* thoughts/suggestions/ideas are more than welcome!!!

[Dark_Stang]

Well, I just checked my gmail now and it's okay. It only happenes sometimes when I'm just checking the mail. But if I ever try to talk to anybody with the gchat or whatever it's called. It crashes within the first few moments.

[brian.harker]

hmmm...mine crashes immediately after I'm logged in ( I can see my inbox for about a half-second)

[Dark_Stang]

Try re-installing or try another web browser. You have a few options out there. Or you could wait for the official release of Firefox 2.0

[duffman108]

I have no issues at all with Firefox 2.0 beta 2 here. Been working like a dream. I had major issues with Firefox 1.5 like eating 400mb of ram, crashing randomly, locking up my system randomly, crashing and/or locking up system when having 5+ tabs open. But since I went to Firefox 2.0 beta1 and beta2 I've had 0 issues with it and runs 60% faster and renders 80% faster over 1.5.

Over all, 1.5 was and still is crap lol.

[Dark_Stang]

Using firefox 2.0 B2 now. Unfortunately there is nobody to talk to on gchat (or whater it's called) so I can't test it out. But if you don't feel like using a beta there are always...

SeaMonkey
Opera
Konqueror
And probably a lot more that I don't know about.

[Dapper Dan]

Gmail has never crashed my Firefox in Slackware, CentOS, Ubuntu nor Crux.

[brian.harker]

Any ideas on the error message displayed in my first post?

Should I submit a bug report somewhere?

Help!!!!!


Thanx!