Firefox hangs on launch

[dennis allison]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox hangs when launched--the frame and an initial tab is displayed but the tab never gets populated. Launching Chrome or other browser works fine. It is likely that the problem is an unresponsive URL accessed in the launch process, but there seems no easy way to discover what that URL is.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 16 05:48:06 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-28-generic i686

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Perhaps one of your extensions is the issue? Could you please try to load Firefox in safe mode, which disables all addons, to see if that's the case?
You can do this with the following command with Firefox closed:
firefox -safe-mode

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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