Subject: Workaround for Firefox crashiness
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 01/30/2008 12:31:58
Heyas folks --
If anybody has been annoyed like I have been about Firefox crashing
frequently with many tabs/windows open, I've found a workaround after
digging through a 70MB ktrace.
Basically, firefox runs out of file descriptors and freaks out. Maybe
it's a side effect of having lots of fonts installing from pkgsrc, I'm
not sure. In any case, bumping openfiles before launching firefox has
made the problem disappear for me.
ksh:
$ ulimit -n 512
$ firefox
or login.conf:
default:\
:openfiles-cur=512:
Has made things work much smoother for me.
Hope this helps,
Jared