Interesting issue with facebook causes X to abort

[lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)]

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On 8/14/2010 08:21, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> At work, I have an IA64 workstation running Red Hat Enterprise 5.2.
> Since Firefox does not run on IA64, I start firefox as:
> ssh <server> /opt/firefox.3.6.6/firefox
> 
> Most of the time, firefox works fine, but when I try to log into
> facebook my screen goes into a crosshatch pattern and eventually X is
> restarted. This only happens on facebook, and just about the only time I
> log in on that system is when someone comments on my status. This does
> not happen on my home system (Fedora 13/Firefox 3.6.4). It's just a bit
> annoying.
> 
> 

This could explain the problem my wife is having on her (well, *my*)
laptop.  I haven't bothered to look deeply into this; we're using Fedora
13 also but the i686 version (32-bit dual core).  I have to wonder if a
different browser will help with his; I'll need to check.

 -Don
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