Yahoo e-mail locks-up the PC after some use.

[Garry Leach]

Ubuntu release 8.10; kernel x.x.27-9
Using Mozilla Firefox, latest ver 3.05
Accessing e-mail on Yahoo's system.
After reading & sending mail for a while, the whole PC locks-up & can only be stopped via the power button.
This has been used by a friend who was staying with us for a week.
It locks-up every Yahoo session she has tried.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: fontconfig 2.6.0-1ubuntu4
SourcePackage: fontconfig
Title: package fontconfig 2.6.0-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

[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. Thanks in advance.

[redvamp128 (redvamp128)]

Also happens on Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-15-generic, as well as Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic

Firefox 3.0.13

Basically I clicked the log into yahoo-- then the mail tab-- then the I have new mail then the mail link to open and it races the drive-- have to force quit. Only site that seems to be doing it-- I read somewhere on answers on yahoo that it is the script that does that on the yahoo page-- Don't have anything else installed other than all the updates -- Plus the post updates.... proposed too and still happens.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.
firefox -ProfileManager

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]