firefox crashes when scrolling with mouse wheel

[Ed Stone]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0-branding

Package: firefox
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 124
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Source: firefox-3.0
Version: 3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
Depends: firefox-3.0, firefox-3.0-branding
Filename: pool/main/f/firefox-3.0/firefox_3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3_all.deb
Size: 69116
MD5sum: a594ba15ee9cd70b3685b9a3c53bd149
SHA1: c260d29b94c24007d819b3143690685510ff698f
SHA256: 778cacb9116964cbf6101a2a79deb74040a4cd8f969aef3cbcd3edca11f550fa
Description: meta package for the popular mozilla web browser
 Firefox 3 is the next major release of the standalone Mozilla browser; it is
 written in the XUL language and designed to be lightweight and cross-platform.
 .
 This is a meta package that will point to the latest firefox package in ubuntu.
 Don't remove this if you want to receive automatic major version upgrades for
 this package in future.
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, mobile-netbook-remix, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend

Ubuntu 9.04
Linux 2.6.28-15 generic
Gnome 2.26.1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

WORKAROUND:
Allow the web pages to load before attempting to scroll.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* Is this reproducible?
* If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

I have tried to reproduce this issue by scrolling with the wheel on my mouse and am not able to.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Ed Stone (svcallisto37)]

This still happens: when I scroll quickly down on a web page that has not completely loaded. When I restart Firefox it returns to the last loaded page.

If I am patient enough to let the page load I don't have this problem.

Getting faster internet service has reduced occurrences of this problem greatly.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[dr.spock (dr.spock)]

This bug is affecting me since last 4 or 5 firefox releases (including last one, 11.0)