On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:40:23AM -0600, Mark Stodola wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 04:53 AM, Eva Myers wrote:
> >I have a problem with the new Firefox 17 on SL5 machines with ATI
> >Radeon X300 graphics cards using the fglrx driver.  The X server will
> >frequently crash when a user attempts to start Firefox, leaving the
> >computer with its screen black and unresponsive to mouse or keyboard
> >(the Xorg process just sits there eating CPU).  Does anyone know a fix
> >for this problem?
> >Eva.
> 
> This sounds more like a problem with fglrx, are you using the one from 
> ELrepo?  I'm still on FF 10ESR here, but under Options/Preferences (they 
> keep changing it I swear!), in the advanced section, general tab, you 
> can uncheck hardware acceleration.  See if that alleviates the problem. 
>  It may be useful to check your Xorg log files for clues as well.

I downloaded fglrx from
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.12&lang=English

Eva.