Originally Posted by rs-px

That's pretty bad, even for Abiword. Most of my crashes happen when I delve into the settings. General word processing *seems* OK.

Try deleting /home/user/.AbiSuite. This is a directory. This will wipe your prefs file, returning the app to a just-installed state.You'll have to do this via Xterm, ie

Code:

rm -rf /home/user/.AbiSuite/