Firefox 3b5 crashes infinetely

[Hurin]

Binary package hint: synaptic

I installed Hardy Heron 64bits last night
Also installed several software packages like udftools and JRE 6.0
No flash plugin yet
Im using a profile located on my data hard disk so I can use it in my windows partition too
Firefox had about 5 or 6 tabs opened at the time of the crashes
The first time it crash after hitting the "C" key in gmail to compose new mail. The program closed by itself
Then I opened FF again and it offered me to restore previous session, which I did
Again the same problem occurred 5 more times soon after the browser was opened

NOTE: I use firefox 2 in the windows environment with the same profile
After the problems and before this bug was written, flash player installation failed 3 times. The 4th was successful and you see me writing the bug.

uname -a

2.6.24-16-generic #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 12:47:45 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 14 09:42:30 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.61ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64

[arno_b (arno.b)]

please give the result of apt-cache policy firefox
Try if you still have craches with a clean profile using: firefox -safe-mode
Or try to get a backtrace: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs

Waiting for results.

[Hurin (auxcri)]

Firefox 3b5 is much more stable if the profile directory resides in the default system location. I was searching a backup of that directory in a different disk drive, obviously a different path.

user@computer:~$ 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://cr.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[arno_b (arno.b)]

Do you still have any problem with firefox 3.0.3?

[Hurin (auxcri)]

I think the real problem is nvidia software with nautilus, metacity or compiz. Everytime I have special window effects I have frequent problems. Doesn´t happen in my other computer at work without propietary drivers, there, my especial window effects are as stable as hunger in the world... nobody crashes.

[arno_b (arno.b)]

So set to invalid. You may look for reports that speak about nvidia and compiz... I think there is a lot...
Feel free to repoen it if necessary.