google reader causes crash on lolcats

[Gary Bishop]

Binary package hint: firefox

I use Google Reader to read RSS feeds from many sites. Recently I have had several crashes when visiting the feed from lolcats (http://icanhascheezburger.com/). Tonight it is perfectly reproducible. I can start Firefox, start Google Reader, click on the Lolcats feed, and Firefox will crash.

I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.13 and Ubuntu Gutsy.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 16 20:35:46 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: vmnet vmblock vmmon nvidia
Package: firefox 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux gb-d800 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Andres Herrera (andresh)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

[Gary Bishop (gb-cs)]

Thanks for the reply. I'll try that when I get a chance. Things are
hectic until the end of the month.
gb

Andres Herrera wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be
> reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the
> development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could
> test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of
> Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at [WWW]
> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your
> help.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Martijn Bodewes (bodewes)]

I can confirm this bug

Uname: Linux dribbel 2.6.22-14-386 #1 Tue Feb 12 07:12:19 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080325 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.13
Package: firefox 2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10

[Tim Newsome (nuisance)]

I have the same issue on my work machine. Strangely I run the same Ubuntu release at home and it works fine there.
Firefox version where it reproduces:
Version: 2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
Firefox version where it works fine:
Version: 2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10

I've had this problem occasionally for a month or two.
If there is any other information I should get from both machines that you'd like to see, let me know.

[Martijn Bodewes (bodewes)]

I noticed that IceWeasel on my Work (debian) also crashes (on the same page)

I'm willing to provide additional data

As soon as my system updates to 8.04 I'll test it.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

You cant confirm a crash without debug info sme site may crash for differnet reasons. Please file a bug using apport next time you are able to reproduce this bug and please only one crash report per bug # apport will mark it as a dup if it sees that it is. If you fail to get a log file in /var/crash than please follow the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs