[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox Crashes

[Jonathan Adams]

Gah! ... I knew it.

It's been happening for months (> 6) and the second I send an email the
problem disappears!

Please ignore.


On 26 March 2014 10:24, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm interested if anyone else has an issue like mine ...
>
> I am running OI hipster on a majority "Intel" laptop (Intel network, Intel
> graphics, etc.) and there are sites that just crash and burn my browser if
> I try going to them. I assumed that it was something to do with the
> hardware acceleration that is built into Firefox misbehaving ... even
> though I have disabled acceleration (as far as I can see) in Firefox itself
> ...
>
> Sites like maps.google.co.uk, and a few others seem to have this problem
> ... I can just avoid using them mostly.
>
> If I run Firefox at the prompt it always comes up with the message
> "ATTENTION: default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by
> environment." before it coredumps.
>
> I have managed to reduce the test case though down to:
> 1) Opening Firefox
> 2) going to "about:support"
>
> Does anyone else have this issue, does anyone have any ideas on what I
> could do to fix it?
>
> Jon
>