Jaunty 64 bit firefox locks up my machine completely

[Michael M. Moore]

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 15:40 -0500, Sean Carolan wrote:
> Ok, so the first time this happened I hoped it was a one-time
> occurrence but it's occurred three times now.  I'll visit a website,
> usually with some kind of flash widget on it and the entire operating
> system freezes.  The last two times this has occured were when I
> visited www.ingdirect.com and www.discovery.com.  When the crash
> occurs it's not just Firefox, and not only X windows but the kernel
> locks up completely.  I can't get console, can't log in remotely,
> can't do anything except hit the power switch and reboot.  This is a
> huge problem, since I generally have at least a dozen windows open at
> a time, with various terminals, RDP, vmware, etc.  It takes me 10-15
> minutes just to get back to where I was before the crash.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced something like this?  Any suggestions on
> how I can keep Firefox from bringing down my entire machine?  I had
> hoped Ubuntu would be more stable than Windows as my primary desktop
> OS, but so far it's not proving to be the case.  At least in Vista
> when a program crashes it doesn't bring down the entire machine.
> Unfortunately there's no error report or stack trace because the
> machine instantly halts before any of that can be generated.
> 
> If you have any pointers or suggestions I'd love to hear them.
> 

Oh, sorry, I see you did say Jaunty, in the subject line.

-- 
Michael M.