Firefox crashes when trying to play flash-movie

Bug #265001 reported by Søren Bredlund Caspersen
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When trying to visit

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card

Firefox crashes.

Here is console log, will attach valgrind.log.

 G_SLICE=always-malloc G_DEBUG=gc-friendly valgrind -v --tool=memcheck --leak-check=full --num-callers=40 --log-file=valgrind.log /usr/bin/firefox
** 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)
Segmentation fault

This is with:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 5 12:01:57 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Søren Bredlund Caspersen (soeren-b-c) wrote :
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

 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 if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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sloper (fgblankestijn) wrote : Re: [Bug 265001] Re: Firefox crashes when trying to play flash-movie

hai ill did install 8.10 and it run good whit only one problem ill don,t
have sound from my sis 7012 chipset ???? Op donderdag 22-01-2009 om
16:04 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Martin Mai:
> 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 if this is still an issue
> for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thanks. Therefore I am closing this bug. Please open a new one if the sound problem persists.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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