Firefox seg faults on Extensions and Themes

[Tom Bentley]

I tried to update the web developer toolbar, and firefox crashed. Now, if I try
to bring up the Extensions or Themes windows, I can a seg fault.
"""
*** loading the extensions datasource
Segmentation fault
"""
is printed to stdout.

[Tom Bentley (tom-bentley)]

OK, it seems to be intermittant: The extensions window worked for my just now...
but Go > History seg faults too.

[MichaelIhde (mike-ihde)]

I just wanted to add that I experienced a similar problem after upgrading
firefox to 1.0.2-0ubuntu5.4. Prior to the update everything worked, after the
update anytime I closed a tab the browser would crash with a segmentation fault.
 By removing the Web Developer extension (version 0.9.3) the problem was fixed.
 If I reinstalled the web developer extension the problem returned. It is worth
noting that I have also set general.useragent.vendorSub to 1.0.4 so the
extension would install, this may be part of the problem.

Steps to reproduce the bug:
  1. Install firefox 1.0.2-0ubuntu5.4
  2. Set general.user.vendorSub to 1.0.4
  3. Instal web developer extension 0.9.3
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60)
  4. Restart firefox
  5. Open a new tab
  6. Close tab

At this point the browser will crash, and if run from the command line a
Segmentation Fault will result.

~Michael

[Tom Bentley (tom-bentley)]

> I just wanted to add that I experienced a similar problem after upgrading
> firefox to 1.0.2-0ubuntu5.4. Prior to the update everything worked, after the
> update anytime I closed a tab the browser would crash with a segmentation fault.

Yes, I should have mentioned that this has only started happening with
1.0.2-0ubuntu5.4

> It is worth
> noting that I have also set general.useragent.vendorSub to 1.0.4 so the
> extension would install, this may be part of the problem.

Again, I've also hacked my vendorSub to get around mozilla's annoying upgrade
policy.

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36208.