Firefox segfaults on most webpages

[Josh Holland]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

On certain websites, (anecdotally podcast.ubuntu-uk.org, facebook, several blogs, ubuntu/kubuntu wikis) Firefox crashes with a SIGSEGV. I tried reinstalling it to no avail, and also disabling add-ons. However, selecting the menu to switch it off just caused another segfault.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.10+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Many bad Firefox behaviors are in fact caused by one of the many third-party 'themes', 'extensions' and 'plugins'. These will go away with a new profile - that is, when Firefox is restored to default settings and without any extensions and themes.
Please follow these instructions and try that site with a new profile:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs?action=show&redirect=DebuggingFirefox#Try%20with%20a%20new%20profile

[Josh Holland (jshholland)]

I tried it with an empty profile, to a certain degree of success but it still segfaults a lot.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Could you please try this?
sudo force_start=1 /etc/init.d/apport restart

Then do whatever you've been doing in Firefox to generate the crash. It should open a new bug. Please reference this bug # in that new report.

[Josh Holland (jshholland)]

See bug 377583 for the bug reported by apport