Segmentation Fault occurs when a second window with Flash content is closed
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned | ||
firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
flashplugin-nonfree (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
Intermittently when I am viewing flash video in a separate window, Firefox will freeze completely and must be killed. This is only an intermittent bug because it happens on odd occasions and only when the flash video is in a separate second window. Sometimes, if a second window with Flash content is opened this will also cause Firefox to crash in the same manner.
This crash occured when I was watching a programme on BBC iPlayer in a pop-out window, however it has occurred before and in previous installs of Ubuntu. I am currently using Firefox 3.0.7+nobinonly
I managed to recreate the same problem on an older Ubuntu and Firefox version in a virtual machine by selecting the pop-out player option, which spawns a second window with Flash video content, closing the second window which caused the main window to freeze, which had to be forcibly quit.
What should have happened:
The second window should have closed when the close button is clicked, leaving the first window alone.
What actually happened:
The window completely froze and Firefox had to be forcibly quit. Both Firefox windows are killed and the session had to be restored.
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Disassembly: 0x7f5115dcdf3b:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.7+nobinonly
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=C
SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Stacktrace: #0 0x00007f5115dcdf3b in ?? ()
StacktraceTop: ?? ()
ThreadStacktrace:
Title: firefox crashed with SIGSEGV
Uname: Linux 2.6.29-
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin mythtv plugdev pulse pulse-access pulse-rt sambashare
StacktraceTop:?? ()