[Bug 224952] [NEW] Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 crashed when playing video

[James Abley]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Description:	Ubuntu 8.04
Release:	8.04

jabley at python:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When trying to view this page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chrismoyles/celebritylap.shtml

The Firefox process dies when the video is retrieved from youtube.

I've seen other reports asking for the contents of /var/crash. I don't
have anything in there. The problem is consistently reproducible on my
machine, so I should be able to supply more information if someone can
tell me what to look for; e.g. dpkg selections, firefox Content-Type
application associations or something else that might point to the
problem.

This machine was a vanilla 7.10 install, recently upgraded to 8.04.

Nothing obviously enlightening when running the process from the CLI
either.

jabley at python:~$ firefox 
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2)
** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1)
jabley at python:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 30 23:01:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 crashed when playing video
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