Comment 5 for bug 59873

I took a look at the link you gave, and I'm not sure I got something
right. It says I should run firefox as "firefox -g 2>&1 | tee
gdb-firefox.log".

Can I do that all the time (that is, change the shortcut to that) so I
can get the log for an unexpected crash? I see such bugs relatively
often (once or twice a month) and I was never able to reproduce them.
(I expect it's mostly caused by my flaky network connection, perhaps
with some contribution from the extensions.) I would be willing to run
Firefox with some performance loss all the time, if it were useful to
debug at least some of these one-time crashes, but I'm not if it
accumulates ten megs of logs per hour or something like that.

-- Bogdan Butnaru — <email address hidden>
"I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O.

On 12/11/06, David Farning <email address hidden> wrote:
> Bogdan,
>
> Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. Firefox has been
> orphaned for a few months;( I think the maintainer has move on to
> bigger things;)
>
> Yes crash reports without any other information are very helpful if they
> contain all the debug symbols. Install firefox-dbg and obtaining a
> backtrace (or crash report) by following the instructions on
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingFirefox greatly aids us in tracking
> down your problem.
>
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => David Farning
>
> --
> Crash while spell-checking in Writely
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/59873