firefox / iceweasel closes automatically

[Februarius]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

when everytime i lauch the browser firefox/iceweasel it closes around 2 or 5 minutes upon on launching... i experience this on both ubuntu 8.04-8.10-jaunty / debian etch-lenny-sid

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 25 16:47:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[markor (markoresko)]

Could you please update your Ubuntu Install with update manager?
there is much security and bugfix updates till 8.04 released.
Version of Ubuntu LTS now current in 8.04.1 with Linux 2.6.24-21-generic and Firefox 3.0.4 available.
After updating your installation, please report if the problem persist or not.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

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 version of Firefox 3.0? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

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!