[Bug 612131] [NEW] Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox

[shanen (Shannon Jacobs)]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

This is in Firefox 3.6.8, but may have begun with 3.6.7 under Ubuntu
9.04. (Later versions of Ubuntu have been tested on the machine, but
this seems to be the most stable. The main stability problem is probably
related to some kind of display bug (causing a white screen of death)
discovered several years ago and still probably unresolved, though very
rare under 9.04.)

Current problem is random and sometimes frequent unclean shutdowns of
Firefox. No evident provocation. Sometimes nothing seems to be
happening, sometimes I'm moving the mouse, or sometimes I've just
clicked something, but no clear pattern at all.

I have attempted to upload the apport diagnostic information several
times. Several times it clearly seemed to fail, though other times it
seemed to succeed. Looking at that information, I was not able to see
anything suggestive or helpful. I also studied the various logs without
recognizing anything that seemed suspicious or possibly related to the
Firefox problems. No new plugins have been added for a long time, though
NoScript was recently updated (but without any sign of problems on
several other machines that I use). This is the only machine I am
running under Ubuntu 9.04, and I currently believe it is probably
specific to this version and probably related to poor regression
testing, which seems to be a growing problem in Ubuntu.

Having said all of that (and without a crash so far <knock on wood>), I
don't much care anymore. I had very high hopes for Ubuntu to become a
viable alternative to such ugly options as Windows. I really hoped that
Ubuntu could help Linux become more than a tiny niche OS for geeks and
nerds. My hopes were not dashed. More like chewed to pieces by catty
bugs.

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

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Unprovoked shutdowns of Firefox
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