[firefox-3.0] crash when master password prompt displayed

[Aaron Kelley]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

This is Ubuntu 8.10. I've seen this crash on Firefox 3.0.3 and 3.0.4.

I have a "master password" configured to protect my saved passwords in Firefox (Edit->Preferences->Security).

When I launch Firefox and go to a site that requires a password, one of two things happens:

 - The master password prompt is displayed, I put in the master password, and then Firefox is "unlocked" and works fine for the rest of the session.
 - Firefox window vanishes (browser has crashed). This happens before the master password prompt is displayed, but only when I navigate to a page that would produce it.

The crash happens about 25% of the time.

I launched Firefox from the terminal and reproduced the crash, and I saw that is is a "Segmentation fault."

Backtrace to follow as soon as I can produce one.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/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 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

[Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley)]

Here's a backtrace, generated via instructions here:
https://wiki.edubuntu.org/MozillaTeam/Bugs

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Is this still a problem in latest Firefox-3.0.9 in your repos?

[Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley)]

Haven't had this crash in 3.0.8 or 3.0.9 since I upgraded to Jaunty, and I've given it several opportunities to show itself. I'm going to call it fixed.