Firefox crashes after searching for text

[Michael Moore]

Binary package hint: firefox-dev

If I use the text search box, Firefox closes when the text search box closes.

Steps to reproduce (happens every time with these steps for me):

1) On any page, type '/' to intiate a text search
2) Type some text in the search box
3) Don't type anything and wait for the text search box to auto close
4) Cry because you were only 1/2 through the paragraph you wanted to read. :-(

Ubuntu Hardy, 32 bit. Upgraded from Edgy --> Feisty --> Gutsy --> Hardy...maybe it's just time for a fresh reinstall. 2G RAM, 3GHz P4.

I deleted my ~/.mozilla folder in case there was something left over from Firefox2 which was causing it to crash. The results were the same before and after deleting.

I searched for a Firefox 3 debug package, but couldn't find one. I've attached a backtrace below, but I'm afraid it probably isn't very useful without debug symbols.

I do have ~6 plugins installed, but the results were the same before I installed them.

The crash occurs regardless of how much RAM or CPU are being used.

I can provide more info if requested. If I don't get this working or get feedback in the next 2 weeks or so though, I'll probably do a reinstall and see if that fixes it. After that, who knows if I'll be able to reproduce it.

Thanks,
Michael Moore

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:20:37AM -0000, Michael Moore wrote:
>
> I can provide more info if requested. If I don't get this working or get
> feedback in the next 2 weeks or so though, I'll probably do a reinstall
> and see if that fixes it. After that, who knows if I'll be able to
> reproduce it.
>

Do you still see this issue? If so, are you running an nvidia card?
Another problem might be that you have libflashsupport installed,
which causes a bunch of crashes quite easily. Try to remove that
package

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status incomplete

 affects ubuntu/flashplugin-nonfree
 status incomplete

 affects ubuntu/libflashsupport
 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Michael Moore (stuporglue)]

I've got an ATI card, and no libflashsupport

stuporglue@stuporglue-desktop:~/Desktop/linuxwacom-0.8.0-3$ lspci | grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
stuporglue@stuporglue-desktop:~/Desktop/linuxwacom-0.8.0-3$ dpkg -l | grep libflashsupport
stuporglue@stuporglue-desktop:~/Desktop/linuxwacom-0.8.0-3$

I do have the Adobe Flash Player installed.

stuporglue@stuporglue-desktop:~/Desktop/linuxwacom-0.8.0-3$ dpkg -l | grep flash
ii flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.124.0ubuntu2 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii mobile-basic-flash 0.36-0ubuntu2 Home applet for Hildon

Thanks,
Michael Moore

[Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe)]

Since it's been a very long time since any additional info was added to this bug, I'm just checking to see if this is still an issue, and find out what additional work should be done on this bug.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.