Question

I just came back to twiki.org for the first time in many months. I am using Mozilla and Firefox on the Unix systems at work. I can connect to the home page just fine but when I click any link the browser will crash with a "Segmentation fault" on both Solaris and Linux. Firefox on Mac OX 10.4 also crashes any time I try to browse to any link on the Twiki home page. I am creating my question with Safari running on Mac OS 10.4 which is not having any problem.

I tried clearing the browser cache on each of the above platforms with the same results. This is very puzzling.

Any ideas would be greately appreciated.

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-- LouieSherwin - 01 Sep 2006

Answer

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Someone suspected the Google AJAX search form as the cause. Could you test if the issue is gone in the Sandbox web where the AJAX search is not installed?

-- PeterThoeny - 01 Sep 2006

I just figured out that I was using an old verrsion of Firefox on my Mac. I upgraded to the latest (1.5.0.6) and I can browse around twiki.org using Firefox on my Mac.

I found a current version of Firefox on Solaris (1.5.0.1) and it is also behaving correctly. This leaves the default Mozilla (1.7.3) on Solaris. It really has a problem. I tried your suggestion of just going to the Sandbox web and it still crashed. The last thing I see in the status line is something about google so it could still be related to AJAX. Fundamentally there seems to be a problem in our Mozilla installation. There is probably something that it needs on the browser side that is not current.

I want to upgrade to the new release but I am concerned that I could break all my users access because they have to use the default browsers. I guess I will just have to install a demo and test with the tools available from the site.

tks, louie

-- LouieSherwin - 05 Sep 2006

This seems to be twiki.org specific. Please let us know if this is the case when you do the test install of TWiki 4 on your system.

-- PeterThoeny - 06 Sep 2006

Thanks Peter, I will let you know as soon as I get some time to make the new install.

louie

-- LouieSherwin - 11 Sep 2006

Closing, no more news...

-- PeterThoeny - 24 Oct 2006