firefox 2 crashing on ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) sparc

[mheise]

Hello,

yesterday i resurrected an old Ultra 10 workstation with an ubuntu 7.10 server installation.

The install went quite smoothly. Then I proceeded to update and upgrade with
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

After the server install completed, Ii went on to install x11.
$ sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

Then I restarted the Ultra 10. Graphic login appears and I can login to a nice Xfce Desktop. Great-I just love ubuntu.

BUT:

firefox 2 crashes reproduceably whenever I start it with a bus error
$ firefox &

I then started firefox in safe mode with
$ firefox -safe-mode &
-> now firefox starts up and I can browser websites on the local network, but when I try to set the proxy under
Edit->Preferences->Advanced, firefox crashes again with a bus error

Has anyone solved this ? Any ideas, pointers ?

I've seen posts on ubuntuforums.org suggesting to use Epiphany as a web browser, but AFAIK Epiphany is for the GNOME desktop and not for just Xfce

Thanks

Max

[jcastill]

Hello Max, Iceape browser works also.

I tried your idea of running firefox in safe-mode (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=393961 that is my post) and it did work. I don't use a proxy (direct gateway) so I can access and use it without problems.

So it seems the problem is related to an addon or something else. I will try to move around and report.

Good luck and thanks for the suggestion.

Jose

[switlikbob]

Has anyone figured this out yet, or does firefox just sinply not work on the sparc platform?

[mips]

What is the full version number of firefox you are using?

[switlikbob]

Same problem here...any ideas? I am running the latest version of Firefox on Gutsy.

[kirsche]

Seeing the same issue here on xubuntu running on VIA C7 1.2 GHz processor.
Iceape and Netscape working fine.
Still looking into it..

[kirsche]

just found this post:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=641027

not sure if its the same issue, but at least i'm using xfs here.