Firefox 3.01 unrecoverably hangs Ubuntu 8.04 while editing bookmarks

[dabeatle28]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

I imported my html bookmarks file to Firefox 3.01 in Ubuntu 8.04. After that, trying to edit bookmarks or add any new one dragging it from the address bar to the bookmarks menu just hangs the complete system unrecoverably, I have to unclean shutdown each time. Those same bookmarks work perfectly in Firefox 3.01 for WindowsXP SP2, they are a lot (approx 1300 bookmarks in several folders) but I don't consider using less bookmarks to be a solution, I need them.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 15 09:06:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
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=es_MX.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[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.

[dabeatle28 (davagui)]

Bug update: Now I have Ubuntu 8.10 and Firefox 3.06. I dragged the icon of a web page (the one left to the address bar) to the bookmarks menu, waited until the menu displayed and dragged down to a position on the root menu (not in any folder) and droppped it there. But moments after I released the mouse button the screen darkened a little (as usual when processor is working hard) but never got out of that state, the pointer icon remained with the dragging shape (didn't became an arrow again) and it could be moved around in the screen but there was no response when I clicked any Firefox o Ubuntu system menus, buttons or icons, thus making the system unusable (hanged). Nor any key stroke responded to bring menus or apps, with the exception of ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to tty1 and properly shutdown the system (I waited for more than 3 hours before finally shutting down). That was the difference with Ubuntu 8.04 which didn't allowed any keystroke and I had to unclean shutdown every time this bug happened.

The workaround I've been using to this date to bookmark my web pages (on Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10) is using the Ctrl-D key stroke to bring the little window and clic on the folder where I want my bookmark placed. That works very well.

The other important difference is that since I installed Ubuntu 8.10, I am able now to go to the menu "Bookmarks > Organize bookmarks" and drag them around. That didn't work on Ubuntu 8.04, Firefox 3.01, where the system hanged as explained.

[drew212 (mstngdrew212)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 238542 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.