Firefox crashing daily

For the past month or so firefox has been crashing daily on my linux box, distro SLED 10.
Setting: Around 100 or so tabs open, virtual memory 1GB+, after running for a few hours, a blank window automatically appears out of nowhwere. If I close it, firefox crashes, here is what the console says before I close the window:

Code:

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x37025d7 unexpectedly destroyed

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-WARNING **: GdkWindow 0x37025cc unexpectedly destroyed

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_user_data: assertion `window != NULL' failed

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_back_pixmap: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(Gecko:24097): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(Gecko:24097): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed


(Gecko:24097): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_show_unraised: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_move_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_move_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

And when I close the window:

Code:

(Gecko:24097): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_move_resize: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
Gecko: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0.

if I dont close the window, sometimes it automatically closes (without firefox crashing), but the appearance of the blank window is like a timer, firefox does not stay on for long. Sometimes it itself crashes. Sometimes I click on a link and the link opens in a new small window with no adress panel, which does not behave right, and then I'm forced to close it.

Any fix for this ?

 

Can you run in safe mode to see if it's not add-on related? Which version of ff are you using?

 

Yeah, this is kind of a time at which fixing Firefox 2 problems would be pointless

 

Ok, I'll do that.

Unfortunately I cant run firefox 3, it complains about some library being old (SLED is 2 years old), and unfortunately my attempt to upgrade the libarary did not go well.

 

I ran with all addons disabled. It became more unstable. Crashed twice in 1 hour.

Here is the console output the first time (I'm only showing a couple of lines of the flash warnings, in reality
the warning is repeated many times).:

Code:

Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 16942 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

The Flashplayer warning also occurs with addons active.

The second time:

Code:

Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
./run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 17037 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

The addons I'm running are 1)Adblock plus 2)Flashblock and 3)Session saver

 

came across a discussion on this before, see if it does apply to ur issue
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-02/msg02123.html

cheers ...

 

Hi.

Firefox 2.0 use to crash a 100 times a day for me, not exaggerating.

Then i moved to 3.0 beta, everything was great, and then RC1, started crashing again about 20 times a day.

Now i am using RC2 and everything is great again!

Regards

John.

 

We found out it was because of the plugins you had that you complained weren't in FF3, and you use Windows so it may be totally irrelevant. This is the Linux forum.

 

Hi.

oops my bad!

John.

PS. I did not have an plugins with 3.0 RC1 and it crashed!

 

That's still kinda of hard to believe. I'm sure you're still doing something wrong. You're using an RC so it may be a bug.

 

i also had the same issues with rc1 ALL THE TIME it would crash i mean for no reason just shut down on me and say it crashed.. my god was that annoying so far with rc2 everything s great

 

I installed firefox 3, with new GTK2 library etc:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=262722

Unfortunately, I am still getting those blank windows poppups after a day, and when I close one firefox crashes.
It could not be a RAM problem could it ? The system otherwise is rock solid, runs months on 24/7, with no reboot required.