Firefox 3.5.8 crashes on ubuntu karmic

[sam-c]

Binary package hint: firefox

Firefox on Karmic crashed not all the time but after working for about half an hour.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 2 18:33:40 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

Hello,
thanks for making ubuntu better, the crash can be normal if you are viewing many pages (firefox tab) rich of java and flash contents, but that can be also a bug that has been fixed in the version 3.5.6 of mozilla firefox. This happens to me too when I see many pages with a lot of java and flash contents. However it can depend by the plugins that you are using on firefox, try to run firefox in provisional mode (without any plugin).

[Lorenzo De Liso (blackz)]

I'm going to set this bug as "Incomplete", because we need more information to work on it:

1. As, I said, try to run firefox in provisional mode, then disable all plugins;
2. Run firefox in command line and paste us the possible error(s).

Regards,

Lorenzo D. (alias BlackZ).

[Kat.Ze (katze-uni-bremen)]

I'm having a similar problem. Firefox crashes randomly, sometimes even when I'm not active using it / am on a different desktop.
firefox 3.5.8 on ubuntu

I tried to get a hint by running it in gdb and got the same errors on 3 crashes (no ff debugging symbols):
ff_segfault.txt

I disabled all plugins, same crashes. Got following errors on the command line:
(firefox:7395): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
*** e = [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE) [nsIJSCID.getService]" nsresult: "0x80570016 (NS_ERROR_XPC_GS_RETURNED_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js :: getShellService :: line 312" data: no]
Segmentation fault

The gdb output looks a bit different this time:
ff_segfault2.txt

[Kat.Ze (katze-uni-bremen)]

and the second gdb output

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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