Firefox Crashing

[Wade Smart]

20090611 0833 GMT-5

My friend just sent me a email saying he has a problem with this computer.

Has been dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.04 for over a year without any 
problems. Last night he turned off his system and this morning when he 
turned it back on he has crazy troubles under ubuntu.

His browsers keep crashing - as in, open it up, go to any page, the page 
might load, it might not, and the app closes.

Pidgin is doing the same. He will open a window to me, post a message - 
and immediately go offline. Then a few message attempt later, he wont go 
off line, I can see the message but he cant see any posted response back.

He emailed me this from Firefox:

*** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/firefox: double free or 
corruption (fasttop): 0xb18e9098 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7da7454]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x96)[0xb7da94b6]
/usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1(talloc_free+0x153)[0xb3706503]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2[0xb0860289]
/usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1(talloc_free+0x271)[0xb3706621]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(alloc_sub_basic+0xa87)[0xb088b7a8]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(talloc_sub_basic+0x33)[0xb088bd8f]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2[0xb07cb281]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(lp_lockdir+0x27)[0xb07cc3f2]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(lock_path+0x17)[0xb0885ac5]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(receive_unexpected+0x21)[0xb0824767]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(receive_nmb_packet+0x65)[0xb0827375]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(name_query+0x32e)[0xb0829e4d]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(_nss_wins_gethostbyname_r+0x38a)[0xb07c7555]
/lib/libnss_wins.so.2(_nss_wins_gethostbyname2_r+0x4f)[0xb07c7853]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/li


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20090611 0957 GMT-5

Crap. Forgot to hit send.

Wade
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