The Independent crashes browser on banner mouseover

[mnelson]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

While reading an article on The Independent (specifically, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/in-search-of-the-god-particle-805757.html), I noticed that passing my mouse over the banner will immediately crash Firefox 3, closing the window and dumping me to the desktop.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008041514 Firefox/3.0b5

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 24 14:42:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I've tried to recreate this bug report but was unsuccessful. Could you please try this with a new profile?

You can do this by executing 'firefox -ProfileManager' in a terminal. Please be careful as your are also able to delete profiles including your existing one. In the profile manager you'll want to click 'Create Profile...' which will start the 'Create Profile Wizard'. Click 'Next' and enter a descriptive name for the new profile. Click 'Finish' to have Firefox create the new profile. You should now be back at the Profile Manager where you should select the new profile and click 'Start Firefox'. Please try recreating the bug with this new profile and report back the results.

You can go back to your original profile by starting Firefox via 'firefox -ProfileManager' again, selecting your own profile and clicking on 'Start Firefox'.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.