Bruce O'Neel wrote:

>Also make sure that you rm -rf ~/.mozilla before you start if you've run
>firefox and/or mozilla sometime in the past.
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To point it out:

For me, whenever I encountered stability issues on sparc's with firefox 
or mozilla the almost always disappeard
after removing their config-files. Don't know what they are doing. But 
for me it works.

(Even so I forget about it, from time to time -- may be I'm getting older)

AHA