Mouse click kills Firefox

[Cesar Henrique Vortmann]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

1) Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
    Release: 8.04

2) firefox-3.0:
    Installed: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
    Candidate: 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
    Version table:
   *** 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
         500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
         500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

3) Open the flash context menu

4) When I click the left mouse button and then the right mouse button on a flash based video, the browser suddenly quits.

I tryed a new profile and the output was:

** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetMIMEDescription
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetMIMEDescription return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetValue: returning plugin name.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetValue return
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetValue
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetValue: returning plugin description.
GCJ PLUGIN: thread 0x805f148: NP_GetValue return
Segmentation fault

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 11 09:29:47 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/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 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

I've marked as affecting flashplugin-nonfree, then realised that you haven't actually said which one you do use. Can you check which flash player you're using (the main ones are flashplugin-nonfree from Adobe, gnash, and swfdec)?

Also, can you try creating a new profile, without any extensions, and testing if the same thing still happens? See the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#head-fa398dbbff0621c74659f3a1303dfde9b46f221b

[Cesar Henrique Vortmann (cvortmann)]

Sorry I forgot to say that, but it is in fact flashplugin-nonfree.

I tried to create a new profile and the output of the operation is in the first post. The operation with my default profile was the same. profiles.ini.txt said that because I was writing the post on that window and testing with the new profile on another :P

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

Sorry, it raised an error when you tried to create a new profile? You should probably file that as a separate bug report (after checking that it's not already recorded, of course).

If you can't make a new profile, could you make a new user account (which will automatically have a separate firefox profile), then log in to that, start firefox, don't install any extensions, and test to see if the same problem occurs?

[Cesar Henrique Vortmann (cvortmann)]

No.

The error ocurred (first time) when I was using my own profile. Then I found https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#head-fa398dbbff0621c74659f3a1303dfde9b46f221b and did create a new profile for testing. The creation of a new profile was fine, but the mouse click error was still there. The output of the first post was what showed up on the terminal when I was testing the error with the new profile.

The error ocurred with both profiles.

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

OK, in that case it's most likely a real bug in firefox or (I suspect) Flash. Since not everyone's seeing the problem, it must be due to some difference between your system and, say, mine. I don't know what that might be, but any information you can provide could be useful. In particular, what graphics card do you have, and what driver do you use for it?

I should also point out that flashplugin-nonfree is closed source, so Ubuntu developers cannot work on it. You may want to ask Adobe, who write it.

You may want to try flash 10 beta, for which there is a PPA somewhere that I can't find just now... It's also on Adobe's site, of course. However, I can't guarantee that it will solve your problem, and it comes with the usual caveats about being beta software.

[Cesar Henrique Vortmann (cvortmann)]

I just installed the flash 10 beta, and the bug is gone.

So the bug is in the flash plugin, not in firefox.

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

Cool. I suggest you carry on using flash 10, then, if you don't have other problems with it. I doubt there will be much chance of getting it fixed in flash 9 now that they're working on flash 10.

[JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann)]

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