[ale] latest firefox tends to crash on CentOS 4.4 or is it the aged hardware is going?

[Jerry Yu]

I use CentOS 4.4 as my main desktop at work, with all the latest patches
(yum often!)  This morning, when I clicked to exit the wiki page at
devcental site for F5.com, the Firefox crashed. I checked no left-over
processes  before I restarted FireFox.  Pointing to gmail.com or
dealsea.comwould just crash the browser right away. To no
avail, many times of restarting firefox and crashing at first browsing
attempt.
I 'power' off the boxen, since it hadn't been rebooted since CentOS
4.2anyway.  I heard the disks stopped spinning (an old Gateway 500 mid
tower)
but the screen stayed at the Gnome Desktop w/o mouse/kbd?!  I pressed the
power button to reset it. The boxen came up w/o complains. At first launch
of Firefox, it crashed right away, with 'dealsea.com' site. This time, gmail
didn't crash, so I can compose this email.
Before I go down my own troubleshooting route, anybody experienced similar
problems with the latest FireFox on RHEL 4.4 or CentOS 4.4 ?

RPM : firefox-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4
About: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060915
CentOS/1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4 Firefox/1.5.0.7 pango-text
OS: Linux mybox 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL #1 Tue Aug 22 23:56:05 CDT 2006 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
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