workarounds for firefox kernel panics?

[adamw]

I seem to be getting a LOT of kernel panics when I use firefox, mozilla, and epiphany. About three or so a day. This is with a Powerbook 1.5ghz, 1GB RAM, running Warty 4.1. Has anyone experienced this problem and know any workarounds?

[jjramsey]

I seem to be getting a LOT of kernel panics when I use firefox, mozilla, and epiphany. About three or so a day. This is with a Powerbook 1.5ghz, 1GB RAM, running Warty 4.1. Has anyone experienced this problem and know any workarounds?

Are you sure that it's the browsers per se that cause the kernel panics? Check out this thread (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=12388) and see if anything looks familiar.

[adamw]

If you haven't noticed, I posted in the thread you linked to (I'm not having heat problems). Well, I can't be 100% sure that the mozilla engine is causing the kernel panics. If anything, though, it is causing the problem to surface most easily. If I do get a kernel panic, it happens roughly 95% of the time when I am using mozilla. It rarely happens when I am using the command-line, and I normally spend more time on the command-line then I do with mozilla.

[jjramsey]

If I do get a kernel panic, it happens roughly 95% of the time when I am using mozilla. It rarely happens when I am using the command-line, and I normally spend more time on the command-line then I do with mozilla.

The command line is usually less resource-intensive. Still, just to rule out that its the browser, I'd do something like attempt a kernel compile, just as a stress test.

[adamw]

I did do a kernel compile a week ago without any trouble, but the kernel compile took about 30 mins and the problem normally occurs roughly every 2-3 hours. I have gotten a panic twice when running apt-get update, though. Is there a crashlog somewhere on my system I could look at when this happens to track it down?