firefox dies when anything typed in search or test fields

[Sean McNeil]

On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 02:51, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:18:59AM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> 
> > I'm not getting any core dump or other indication of an error, but when
> > I type a single character into the search text widget or if I go to
> > google.com and type a character in the search for that then firefox will
> > crash.
> 
> This has been frustrating me a lot lately. It seems to be a known problem
> with Firefox 0.8 on amd64 (not specific to FreeBSD):
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=146823&highlight=firefox+amd64
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244577 (???)
> 
> The Gentoo forum posts suggest that turning off "Saved Form Information"
> and "Saved Passwords" (in Privacy options) and "Use Find As You Type"
> (in Advanced / Accessibility options) may help, but it didn't improve
> anything for me. I'm going to try plain Mozilla instead.
> 
> 
> Tim

Mozilla will probably work.  Galeon doesn't have any issues for me so
far.

Sean