From: tholen@antispam.ham   
      
   "Rich Walsh"  writes:   
      
   > New betas of Firefox and Seamonkey are now available.   
      
   After using the 2010 Dec 04 build of Firefox for a while, I think I've   
   seen enough of a pattern to comment on what could be involved in the   
   frequent crashes I've seen.   
      
   There is a web page (not a public one, so don't ask for the URL) that   
   contains links to sub-pages that monitor the progress of several   
   long-running computer programs.  The main page refreshes itself every   
   hour.  The sub pages do not.  I normally left the main page up for   
   monitoring purposes, and Firefox would have crashed overnight.  But   
   on one occasion, I accidentally left the tab on one of the sub-pages,   
   and Firefox stayed up for multiple days.  I've left it both ways now   
   several times, and when the main page is left showing, Firefox won't   
   stay up overnight, but when one of the sub-pages is showing, Firefox   
   can often survive multiple days.  So evidence points to something   
   related to pages that automatically refresh themselves that causes   
   the Firefox beta to crash.  Nothing fancy on the web pages.  The   
   main page just shows some progress graphs (some quantity as a function   
   of time) plus links to the sub-pages that show progress graphs for   
   other related quantities.   
      
      
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