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Firefox 3.6.4 (Namoroka) crashes on start

Bug #562878 reported by John Baldur on 2010-04-14

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #513887: Flash, Java, etc. does not work with out of process plugins and causes Firefox to become unresponsive. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

System: Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala
Package: 3.6.4.~hg20100410r34032+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd1~karmic (karmic)

executable path: /usr/bin/firefox
Trying to start firefox after creating a brand new profile with no add-ons had the same result as my default profile:

john@john-pirate:~$ firefox -ProfileManager

(firefox-bin:5785): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

** (firefox-bin:5816): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 16

** (firefox-bin:5816): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 14
Killed

Firefox (Namoroka) was working perfectly until, after the late system update (early days of April) when Firefox crashes on start! The same situation exists in two different machines - my laptop and my PC.
For the moment I use Google Chrome....

I was told to go back to Firefox 5, but I think that we should look ahead not backwards...

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Martin (lodp) wrote on 2010-04-15:

Same here .. last ubuntu upgrade killed namaroka. I'm on Kubuntu here.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-04-15:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 513887, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.