firefox extremely crash-happy, especially when flash video is involved
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
Yesterday I found that Firefox had suddenly become very crash-prone. I have found this on my default profile, which is very heavily laden with extensions etc, on a clean profile, and when logged in on the clean profile of a fictitious user I keep for troubleshooting purposes. Perhaps it is a little bit worse on my normal account, but I'm not certain.
I can't say exactly what triggers the crashes, but I can confidently induce a crash within 30 seconds at http://
The issue described in this report does not afflict Goggle Chrome at all.
I am attaching a back trace according to the instructions on the Ubuntu wiki.
I am also attaching my apt log for the period including the day this problem started, i.e. 27 February. The only things I am aware of doing that might have caused something to go wrong for all users is to have installed some software. This would have been well before the time I upgraded Firefox to 3.5.8.(relatively late on 27th February). I can't remember whether it was before or after I installed Pidgin and all its dependencies.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 28 03:50:36 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: firefox 3.5.8+build1+
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31.6-rt19 x86_64
Update:
I found that the crashes stopped happening when I removed the Flash plugin. I had installed the 64-bit pre-release plugin from http:// labs.adobe. com/technologie s/flashplayer10 /64bit. html because the bugs in the 32-bit version were causing problems. However this was months ago, yet it was only yesterday that I started experiencing any stability problems with it. For now I've gone back and installed the 32-bit version via apt-get. It seems to be usable for the moment.
I should also add that I have been running BBC iPlayer in Prism (from the Ubuntu repositories), and I have had poor stability, but nothing remotely as bad as I was having yesterday in Firefox. Only rarely did this iPlayer Prism actually crash as such.