Firefox crashes on opening .m3u

[Aleksandr Chepurnoy]

Right after opening the URL below, Firefox crashes.
http://eleven.in.ua/Radio_eLeven.m3u

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 24 09:27:56 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
 flashplugin-installer N/A
 adobe-flashplugin N/A
 icedtea-plugin 1.1~20110420-0ubuntu1.1
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: firefox
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-29 (56 days ago)

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Hi,

Default behaviour is to open these files in Totem, which seems to work fine. Have you used some plugin or another to play the media in the browser itself? Can you say which one please so I can try and reproduce this problem?

Thanks,

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[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is a common crash in the vlc plugin

[Aleksandr Chepurnoy (wuron)]

Yep, problem appears only with vlc plugin installed.
Without it, firefox correctly offers me to download/open the file.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Is bug 722690 the issue you're experiencing?

[Aleksandr Chepurnoy (wuron)]

Yes, that’s definitely the same issue. One difference is that here I was trying to open playlist (.m3u) file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 2.2.1-5

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vlc (2.2.1-5) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
    - Update Breaks + Replaces. (Closes: #799594)
    - Remove vlc-plugin-pulse from Description.
    - Add libxi-dev to B-D for debian/patches/unsubscribe-disable-motion.patch.
  * Add DEP-8 tests
  * debian/libvlccore8.bug-control: Update libavutil package name.
  * debian/libvlccore8.bug-presubj: Mention global plugins cache and
    VLC_PLUGIN_PATH. (Closes: #801439)
  * debian/patches:
    - unsubscribe-disable-motion.patch: Unsubscribe disable motion and
      XI2 mouse events. Fixes mouse event issues with Qt 5.5.
    - alsa-fix-changing-audio-device.patch: Fix changing of audio devices.
      (Closes: #801448)
  * debian/vlc-data.{postinst,maintscript}, debian/vlc.postinst: Remove
    obsolete maintainer scripts.

 -- Sebastian Ramacher <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 23:45:06 +0100