[gentoo-amd64] firefox-bin crashing a few times every day

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

Hi,
   I'm wondering if anyone else is suffering the problems I am with
firefox-bin crashing a few times every day. It seems to be more or
less repeatable. After logging into Gnome for the first time if I have
two tabs and attempt to drag one tab to a different location then it
crashes. Not every time, but often. When I start firefox-bin a second
time it recognizes that it crashed, restarts the previous session, and
at this point it doesn't crash if I drag tabs around.

   I have also had this happen multiple times hitting an Attach File
button in GMail.

   I will say that this seems to have started roughly after the last
time I wrote to the list asking about Java & Flash support. I changed
a number of things at that time & I can go back and look them up if
folks think it's really involved. However this seems a strange thing
to blame on Java or Flash. That work is still in .bash_history so I
can at least get a rough idea of what I was doing if it seems
important.

   There is little to configure for firefox-bin itself. I've attached
the emerge command for reference.

   I've tried running firefox-bin in a terminal but I don't get any
info. I should probably learn how to use something like gdb but I'm
resistant.

   Anyway, I'm mainly looking for ideas about what to consider looking
at to fix this. It's getting frustrating. It crashed 4 times
yesterday.

Thanks,
Mark

lightning ~ # emerge -pv mozilla-firefox-bin

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-bin-2.0.0.8
USE="-restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be -bg -ca -cs -da -de
-el -en_GB -es -es_AR -es_ES -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gu
-gu_IN -he -hu -it -ja -ka -ko -ku -lt -mk -mn -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn
-nn_NO -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT -ro -ru -sk -sl -sv -sv_SE -tr
-zh -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
lightning ~ #
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