[Lilux-help] Mozilla dies unexpectedly

[Patrick Kaell]

Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> Patrick Kaell wrote:
> 
>> Two days ago, my Slack 10 CDs have arrived. I will install it now in a 
>> new partition and will try to reproduce your problem.
> 
> 
> In the LinuxPackages forum, they say it's a problen when you run Mozilla 
> on a machine which has Freetype2 which has been recompiled with the 
> hinting option. Weird, that's exactly what I did. So, Slack10 is likely 
> to work out-of-the-box, as Freetype is in its 'US' form.

I have just installed Slack 10. I tried to reproduce your problem but 
was unsuccessful. I can search under linuxpackages.net and Mozilla is happy.

Perhaps you can start Mozilla from the command line and look at the 
messages when it dies. What plugins do you have installed? Just type 
about:plugins in the address bar. Another thing to try is the following:

Close your Mozilla
mv .mozilla .mozilla.bck
Start Mozilla
Look if the problem is still there

> Firefox should work, according to the forum, but it doesn't. Mozilla has 
> annoyed my on several other occasions, so I might just get rid of it one 
> of these days :-(

I have abolutely no problem. Under Slack 9.1 I used the version 1.7 
without Pango support from www.mozilla.org. Under Slack 10 I used 
Slackware's version.

Perhaps it lies on the KDE environment. Try without KDE. Run xwmconfig 
under Slackware and select another environment.

Greetings, Patrick Kaell