Firefox crashes on many website with embedded objects
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Firefox crashes on many website with embedded objects
everysite using some kind of flash or other embedded objects in html, hard crashes firefox. even without the flash player and other firefox plugins installed.
this is the error reported if i start firefox from console:
The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 118 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
(Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
however putting --sync after firefox binary does (visible) nothing for me.
Because this major firefox problem, it crashes on a very high number of sites, making it practicly unusable.
found this bug after reinstalling my machine to dapper
firefox version is the one in dapper, 1.5.0.3
not really much to say, a 100% clean test user without any extentions or plugins yield exactly the same result as my normal user... a crashing firefox with the error reported above.