crashes when closing a tab

[Janek Kozicki]

Hi,

In recent weeks, on debian lenny, galeon started to crash when
CLOSING a tab. It is currently crashing on average every third time
when I close some tab.

This is in fact much better than iceweasel which is currently
crashing everytime when I try to open a new webpage.

The only non-crashing browser right now is opera.

I have this behaviour on TWO different computers running debian lenny
(one of them is a clean install).

I'm wondering how people browse the web these days?

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[Marcel Pol-2]

Op Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:46:06 +0200
schreef Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@...>:

> In recent weeks, on debian lenny, galeon started to crash when
> CLOSING a tab. It is currently crashing on average every third time
> when I close some tab.
>
> I have this behaviour on TWO different computers running debian lenny
> (one of them is a clean install).

Does it happen without flash-player-plugin as well? Assuming you have
it installed now.
I had these crashes as well on Mandriva, and tried running it under
gdb. All backtraces pointed at flash. Without flash I haven't had a
crash since then (about a week now).

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[Janek Kozicki]

Marcel Pol said:     (by the date of Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:21:40 +0200)

> Does it happen without flash-player-plugin as well? Assuming you have
> it installed now.
> I had these crashes as well on Mandriva, and tried running it under
> gdb. All backtraces pointed at flash. Without flash I haven't had a
> crash since then (about a week now).

Thanks, you are right, uninstalling flashplayer-mozilla 9.0.124.0
indeed fixed the problem.

But I want to use flash :/ At least we know that it's not a problem
with galeon. Apparently iceweasel suffers the same flash-related
problem.

The nicest solution (as I already mentioned) would be a way to turn
flash support on/off from within galeon. See my previous post [1]:

Galeon top Menu:
   Web->Allow Java
   Web->Allow JavaScript
   Web->Allow Flash           (add this one!)

this would easily prevent crashes - I would turn on flash only
when I really need it. And be prepared for a crash.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20080830135041.75bce43e%40szpak&forum_name=galeon-user

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[Janek Kozicki]

Janek Kozicki said:     (by the date of Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:29:11 +0200)

> The nicest solution (as I already mentioned) would be a way to turn
> flash support on/off from within galeon. See my previous post [1]:
>
> Galeon top Menu:
>    Web->Allow Java
>    Web->Allow JavaScript
>    Web->Allow Flash           (add this one!)
>
> this would easily prevent crashes - I would turn on flash only
> when I really need it. And be prepared for a crash.

And while we are at it, adding a similar option for .pdf files would
be similarly useful. Yeah, currently .pdf plugin works in galeon with
acroread, but maybe it will again be crashing in the future?

Yeah, adding those options is kinda admitting that "sorry flash and
pdf support is sometimes broken", get over it. Think out-of-the box,
this is actually the most convenient solution for users.

 Galeon top Menu:
    Web->Allow Java
    Web->Allow JavaScript
    Web->Allow Flash           (add this one!)
    Web->Allow Pdf             (add this one!)

When "Allow Pdf" is disabled, trying to open pdf results in a "save
file" dialog box.

When "Allow flash" is disabled, a box with flash content is empty.

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