Firefox often hogs CPU then crashes

[David Tangye]

Binary package hint: firefox

From the Attached Crash Report:
Distro Release: Ubuntu 6.10
System Arch: GNU/Linux
Package (version): firefox (2.0.0.2+0dfsg-0ubuntu0.6.10)
Source Package: firefox

Original Description:
To reproduce:

1. Start firefox
2. Open a few web pages
Sooner or later cpu and memory go ballistic, the computer freezes and or hopefully firefox crashes and I can get control of the PC back.

This Pc has 384mb RAM, with Ubuntu, gnome, some applets and often no other app started.

Judging by the mass of other crash reports this is obviously very buggy crappy software.

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Thank you David for this report.

Does it happens always on whatever page you visit, or do those pages have flash, video, ...?

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Retrace done:
...
 #4 0xb7bd3c24 in gtk_style_realize (style=0x9f6a900, colormap=0x0)
     at gtkstyle.c:839
 No locals.
 #5 0xb7bd71f0 in IA__gtk_style_attach (style=0x9f8fd38, window=0x93f3918)
     at gtkstyle.c:752
  styles = <value optimized out>
  new_style = <value optimized out>
  colormap = (GdkColormap *) 0x0
 #4 0xb7150fd2 in nsSocketTransportService::Run (this=0x80e0e90)
 #4 0xb7e46b06 in TimerThread::Run (this=0x8081308) at TimerThread.cpp:318
 #4 0xb7db23ad in _pt_root (arg=0x82f8610) at ptthread.c:220
 #4 0xb3cdfff9 in AsyncWriteThread::Run (this=0x8999af8)
 #4 0xb244d2b7 in nsSSLThread::Run (this=0x8e6f528) at nsSSLThread.cpp:879
 #4 0xb244e030 in nsCertVerificationThread::Run (this=0x8e6f6d0)
 #4 0xb7e40971 in PL_WaitForEvent (self=0x8da42f8) at plevent.c:808
 #4 0xb7db23ad in _pt_root (arg=0x900f300) at ptthread.c:220
 #4 0xb7db23ad in _pt_root (arg=0x8fba530) at ptthread.c:220
 #4 0xb7bd3c24 in gtk_style_realize (style=0x9f6a900, colormap=0x0)
...

Tagging as mt-confirm for further processing

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Retraced Thread Stacktrace

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu)]

Marking this report as duplicate of bug #72018 MASTER Firefox Crash [@gtk_style_realize] [@nsFilePicker::Show]