SeaMonkey crashes

[andfree]

Sometimes SeaMonkey crashes and I can't click anything. When it happens, I can't close the SeaMonkey window. I can only maximize and minimize it.

[andfree (andfree)]

I see it happens often when I am on yahoo mail.

[andfree (andfree)]

A Software Update Window informs me that SeaMonkey 2.33.1 is available. I run the commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and the problem with crashes seems to be fixed. But I go Help => About SeaMonkey and I see that I have the version 2.33 which is the version I had before update. The Software Window message for version 2.33.1 being available still opens on my desktop. So, it seems that SeaMonkey hasn't been upgraded.

[Israel Dahl (israeldahl)]

Hi, let us know if the problem happens again.
We may need to contact seamonkey developers if there is a bug here.

[andfree (andfree)]

It happens again when I login yahoo mail.

I had similar problems with firefox 36 on Lubuntu (and Ubuntu). Firefox crashed on certain websites and when I clicked "x" to close the window, a message window appeared:

The window "Mozilla Firefox" does not seem to be responding. Do you want to force it to exit by sending the terminate signal?

I did a bug report for this here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1434848

The problem with firefox happened especially on certain sites as:

http://www.agame.com/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/

Now I try with SeaMonkey on these sites, and it crashes too.

[andfree (andfree)]

At least, I found that I can quit Seamonkey when crashed with the command:

killall seamonkey

So, it's no need to reboot every time it crashes.

[hydrogen (angela-2)]

This happens to me as well, Seamonkey 2.33.1 on Windows 7 x64. It is only the one tab that crashes. I have NoScript and Firebug installed. it only seems to happen when I enable scripts in NoScript. The tab in which I enabled scripts then stops responding. Other tabs which do not have scripts enabled continue to work fine. In the affected tab, if I disable scripts, the tab will refresh and work normally.

[andfree (andfree)]

It seems to have been fixed. I navigate all "problematic" sites properly.

[andfree (andfree)]

Sorry, I was wrong at the previous comment. I tested on the wrong laptop. Sorry.

[andfree (andfree)]

I want to try PaleMoon. But I have this terminal display:

~$ sudo apt-get install palemoon
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package palemoon

[Israel Dahl (israeldahl)]

Hi, unfortunately palemoon is not in the repositories.
However, I found a PPA with palemoon:
https://launchpad.net/~marian.kadanka/+archive/ubuntu/palemoon
You can install from a PPA using:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marian.kadanka/palemoon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install palemoon

[andfree (andfree)]

Thank you. Palemoon seems to work on sites where seamonkey or firefox crash. With some delay sometimes or being "stuck" for some seconds, but it works. And this time I don't test it on the wrong laptop.

[amjjawad  (amjjawad)]

Hi and thank you for your report.

Although this has been marked as "incomplete", I'd like to share my opinion :)

The concept of ToriOS is to provide a working base system and give the user 100% freedom to build his/her system the way they like. That said, the user needs to install whatever he/she likes or wants.

However, if the default browser is crashing, we need to do our best to track that and hopefully fix it while we can. If not, then we need to report to the developers of that browser/software :)

Thank you!

[Geoffrey De Belie (computergeoffrey)]

Please note that I experienced crashes with Firefox in the past due to limited memory. You can always install Midori to get around Firefox.