Firefox crashes X on resize of window

[rakkenes]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Ubuntu Gnome

Have firefox with lots of tabs, some with javascripts, I resize the firefox window, and X crashes, landing me in the login screen.. when I log in again,,some applications do not work anymore, so I have to do a reboot.

Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1 0
        500 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://th.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 23 15:33:22 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
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 2.6.24-22-generic x86_64

[Alexander Sashnov (sashnov)]

Seems you use slow or broken video driver and firefox floods X.

How many RAM you have, swap.
free -m output before X hangs.

Also interesting in results of:
x11perf -all
gtkperf

Also look to adblock and flashblock Firefox extensions.

[drew212 (mstngdrew212)]

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. If this is still an issue for you, please remark the status to new.