Closing firefox3 causes the WHOLE Operating System to come to a halt.

[soundconjurer]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Upon closing FF3, the whole operating system comes to a halt. The only functioning App is the little system monitor app. Firefox3 seems to cause instability to the whole OS.

I have to reboot this laptop more than I had to reboot XP.

I've reinstalled Ubuntu three times now. Even the 8.04.1 LTS version. I just can't seem to fix it myself.

It's definitely a major bug. And I tried to find a similar bug to subscribe to, but they all have symptoms to this one.

The general FF3 symptoms:

Closing it the first time. Leave FF3 running. Go into system monitor to end the process.
Closing it the second time and ending the process stops it from reloading it again. Often it causes everything to freeze.
If it doesn't freeze the whole OS at this point, an attempt at opening again will.

I hate, I repeat, I hate rebooting my computers. I can't even keep firefox running for a few hours.
I know the bug fixers are busy, but why is FF3 having so many issues?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 11 11:13:09 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
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)]

If you create a new user account, start firefox on its own, and don't install any add-ons, does the same thing still happen? Also, what pages do you have open when you close it? Make sure to try closing without using any flash or java content--e.g. set the homepage to Google, then open the browser and close it.

I think Firefox tends to look much buggier than it really is, because of all the different extensions which can cause problems, and difficulties with flash (which many websites rely on). It does have some problems of its own, of course, but a lot of what's reported is actually not due to Firefox.

[soundconjurer (palemastervolrath)]

The pages I have up are definitely running scripts.

From all the articles I read, I am seeing that the bug does seem to affect a lot of other extensions similarly. I did mention that in the original article, but mine seems to be a very acute case of what is happening to the others.

I assume it is something central and not individual bugs. But a bug that affects other extensions similarly.

I go to too many websites to name here.
My top:
School Website: my.usf.edu Definitely full of scripts
Myspace
Facebook
Linux/Unix websites.

My only extensions in use are Adblock.

[soundconjurer (palemastervolrath)]

My roommate reported similar findings to Firefox 3 in openSUSE. So I am assuming this isn't isolated to the distro.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

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Reverend_of_War wrote:
> My roommate reported similar findings to Firefox 3 in openSUSE. So
> I am assuming this isn't isolated to the distro.
>
Where did you download adblock from and please remove it and try.
adblock has been known to cause problems like this for the last few
releases as i have been informed a while ago.

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Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
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[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

Hmmm...I've just opened up your school website and facebook in tabs, plus
I've got a few other things including GMail and Google Reader, and I've
closed and re-opened it perfectly happily. I'm using Adblock Plus,
0.7.5.5(the same version that you have, according to the files it
automatically
attached). I've never seen what you report, so it must logically be due to
some difference between our set-ups.

Can you try creating a blank profile to see if it's anything in your
customisations of firefox? Instructions are at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#head-fa398dbbff0621c74659f3a1303dfde9b46f221b

Also, to confirm if it is related to scripts, can you test on some page that
doesn't use any scripts--set it as firefox's home page, so that it's not
loading any other pages, then open and close firefox a few times.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Please use a new profile by following the instructions at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs
Everyone seeing this issue can you please let us know if its 32bit or 64bit with/without nspluginwrapper
This is likely caused by extension of corrupt profile. I have also seen a bug this morning that nspluginwrapper was causing the crash not flash.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.