[KLUG Members] Firefox hanging on Mandriva

[Monte Jewell]

Ok, I apologize for the dumb question, but I didn't realize that Firefox 
would run from the command line.  How do I start it up from there and 
what should I try and spot?

Its hung as in won't load pages after the first few.  The rest of the 
app and other apps respond fine.

adam at morrison-ind.com wrote:
>> I'm moving my law office to linux from XP and hit a weird problem.
>> Firefox works fine on XP but hangs when I use it from the drive with 
>> Linux (Mandriva).  The machine, the connection, all of it is the same 
>> except that I'm using Firefox from Linux instead of XP.
>> A page or two loads fine, but then nothing else loads.  The message at 
>> the bottom says connecting to the site, and it never finishes.
> 
> 
> If you run firefox from a terminal window do you see any messages appear?
> (Starting it from a menu you can't see these).
> 
>> It came up when I tried to download Thunderbird.  The first Mozilla 
>> pages load fine, but it stops working when I try to connect to the 
>> download page.
> 
> 
> How hung is hung?  Hung as in it won't load any pages, or hung as in I 
> can't
> click file->exit or hung as in if I drag something over the window I'm left
> with a blank grey area where the FF window used to be.
> 
> Are you using a proxy server?
> 
>> Any ideas what's going on and how I might troubleshoot the problem 
>> would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> You could try attaching to the process with strace -p {pid} and look at 
> what it
> is doing [ or not doing ].
> 
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