[27667] in Athena Bugs
Re: Odd bug in Firefox on Athena machines.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benjamin Kaduk)
Tue Jul 15 14:46:41 2014
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 14:46:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
To: "D.W. Rowlands" <rowlands@mit.edu>
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I loaded up firefox on psi-phi.mit.edu as a test user last night, and
could not reproduce the crashing behavior.
It might be worth trying to create a new firefox profile to see if that
helps stop the crash.
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istcontrib/Create+a+new+Mozilla+Firefox+Profile
-Ben
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, D.W. Rowlands wrote:
> It's not a machine in a cluster, but it is a machine set up as a
> cluster machine. (Host name is psi-phi.mit.edu)
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On 6/19/14, 10:07 PM, D.W. Rowlands wrote:
>>>
>>> Right-clicking anywhere on a Firefox window crashes Firefox for me.
>>> This doesn't happen in other windows, i.e. Terminal.
>>
>>
>> Is this a cluster machine, or another type of machine? (If it's not a
>> cluster machine, what's its hostname?) At work, we've found issues with one
>> of the recent Firefox updates on Lucid, causing all sorts of problems.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Chen
>>
>
