[KLUG Members] Firefox hanging on Mandriva

[Todd Pillars]

Monte Jewell wrote:
> 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?
Open a terminal window and type

firefox

The program should start and it will actually look like the term window 
is hung - it will spit output (if any) until you close the program. 
Although on Fedora it started (without error) and went back to the 
prompt for me

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

Does the page try to load any plugins? Java, Flash, Shockwave?

>>
>>> 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.
Many times I have found that DNS (and DNS timeouts) is an issue. And it 
may be that firefox just can't find the resource. Is it still having the 
same problem 12 hrs later?

Hope this helps
Todd