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doorknob60 (doorknob60) wrote : Re: [Bug 212877] Re: [hardy] [regression] Firefox 3 Beta 5 SEGFAULTs constantly when switching flash pages
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If it's b5's fault, why does it do the exact same thing in Seamonkey (the
stable version based on gecko 1.8)

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Kristoffer Lundén <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Bah. Spoke too soon, it still does crash. So it seems beta 5 is the one
> common point of failure, at least for me. It has worked very nicely from
> alphas onward until b5.
>
> --
> [hardy] [regression] Firefox 3 Beta 5 SEGFAULTs constantly when switching
> flash pages
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212877
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in Source Package "firefox-3.0" in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in Source Package "flashplugin-nonfree" in Ubuntu: Incomplete
> Status in Source Package "libflashsupport" in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Firefox was updated today, and crashes when switching from a flash page to
> another.
> This happens on youtube almost all the time.
>
> Running firefox in a terminal:
>
> $ firefox
>
> (firefox:25251): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for semi-transparent has no
> directories
>
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
> ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> I don't believe the Gtk-WARNING message is relevant for this problem; it
> is displayed when running most gtk apps.
> I don't know how to get a backtrace, as I can't run firefox through gdb,
> because /usr/bin/firefox is a script.
>