gnome-panel crashes when firefox is open to a particular page

[Robin Sheat]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Opening this URL:
http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/
in firefox, on a completely up-to-date Ubuntu 8.10 install crashes gnome-panel.

I've had a couple of other people reproduce this. Note: depending on the nature of the bug, it is possibly a security issue. It is causing gnome-panel to segfault and depending on what exactly is doing that, it is feasible that it's exploitable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Robin Sheat (eythian)]

Oh, forgot to mention: switching to another tab in FF is enough to stop the repeated crashing and get your panel back.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

 If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

 If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

 If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
 I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.