Firefox Segmentation Fault

[Caleb Eggensperger]

If you start Firefox with the flag -ProfileManager, you can create new
profiles without having to mess with your .mozilla directory directly,
for future reference. I find this easier.

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Darryl Tidd wrote:
>> Hi all, I'm running Firefox 3 on Ubuntu 8.04.
>> When I go to Yahoo mail I Firefox shuts down, not the only website this
>> happens on, but I don't remember the others at this time.  So, I start
>> Firefox from a terminal and when it shuts down the terminal says
>> Segmentation Fault.  Sometimes it shows this message: (firefox:4957):
>> GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT
>> (object)' failed
>> Segmentation fault
>>
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Have you previously been running FF2 and upgraded to FF3?  I ask since I was
> plagued with seg faults after doing an upgrade.  The cure was to record all
> the plugins and themes I had installed the move my .mozilla directory to
> .mozilla-ff2 and allow ff3 to recreate and go through the download and
> install process for all the themes/plugins again.
>
> Now, everything is working well.
>
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