firefox gets segmentation fault for no reason

[krokodil]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Firefox crashes without warning, generally a minutes or two after starting.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.0.18+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-17-generic i686

[krokodil (vavruch)]

I apologise for the short report above, I was in Firefox and was worried it would crash before I finished. Am now using Epiphany.

Steps to reproduction on this machine:

* Start up Firefox.
* Wait a little bit
* Crash

When run from the commandline I get the following output:

Segmentation fault

When I try to run it in safe mode the same thing happens. It seems to stay up for a bit longer if you interact with it, but doesn't keep it open indefinitely.

I have tried reinstalling all the Firefox packages, I have uninstalled all the Firefox extensions, except the Ubuntu one which I can't remove, none of that seems to have had any effect.

The problem started round about the 28th of March.

[krokodil (vavruch)]

The latest release 3.0.19 seems to have fixed this problem.