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A strategy for dealing with a flaky computer

A strategy for dealing with a flaky computer

Posted Oct 24, 2009 16:04 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: A strategy for dealing with a flaky computer by ccurtis
Parent article: A strategy for dealing with a flaky computer

The Firefox IFRAME-popout bug also happens on Hardy, and has been an issue since Firefox 1.0 and earlier - see http://lwn.net/Articles/357074/ for link to the Mozilla bug.

Interestingly, I don't get this bug any more since switching Hardy from a normal 32-bit desktop 2.6.24 to a PAE kernel, gaining access to about 800MB RAM as a result - perhaps the reduced memory pressure or something has made a race condition less likely. However, I do get frequent crashes which might be another manifestation of the same bug.


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