OK, I need some help with Firefox; my sister has been complaining about Firefox randomly crashing on her computer, so I looked at her system and made sure all the dependencies (Flash, Java, *-dev, etc.) I knew of were installed. I then opened the browser and surfed a little, with no problems. I called her to the computer and the moment she clicked the address bar to insert a URL, it crashed. She explained that it happens regularly, and at random times. Flash shouldn't be the issue - keyword "shouldn't" - because she was on the Gutsy homepage at the time of the incident, and usually surfs pages loaded with Flash images. If anybody can give me some pointers, I'd (we'd) be grateful.
Note: It may just be the computer; it's my old computer, and I hate the thing, that's why I built the one I'm on now. It's an old, el-cheapo with tons of idiosyncrasies (I think it cost about $200 retail (the computer, keyboard, mouse, and speakers, minus the monitor), no joke). I tried several different distros on it before settling with Kubuntu because I was afraid Kubuntu would run incredibly slowly, but have been very impressed with it's speed and reliability; every other distro I tried with it wound up being extremely unstable, which is funny because the others were designed for low resource systems (i.e. Xubuntu, DSL (both the stable and beta versions), and Puppy Linux).
Note: It may just be the computer; it's my old computer, and I hate the thing, that's why I built the one I'm on now. It's an old, el-cheapo with tons of idiosyncrasies (I think it cost about $200 retail (the computer, keyboard, mouse, and speakers, minus the monitor), no joke). I tried several different distros on it before settling with Kubuntu because I was afraid Kubuntu would run incredibly slowly, but have been very impressed with it's speed and reliability; every other distro I tried with it wound up being extremely unstable, which is funny because the others were designed for low resource systems (i.e. Xubuntu, DSL (both the stable and beta versions), and Puppy Linux).
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