Description of problem: Roughly 5-10% of the time, when I select "Send Link..." to send a link to someone, Firefox immediately crashes. However, even if this happens, the Thunderbird compose window comes up with the correct information. This has happened with at least the last few versions of Firefox. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0.6-1.1.fc4 How reproducible: sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Firefox. (I usually have Thunderbird open also, but I don't know if this is necessary to experience the bug.) 2. Select File/Send Link... to send the link of the current page to someone. Actual results: Firefox immediately crashes. The Thunderbird compose window comes up with the correct information, though. Expected results: Firefox shouldn't crash. Additional info: All current updates applied. Have Java, Flash, MPlayer, and Real Player plugins installed.
Continues with 1.0.7. Actually, it's happened as far back as I remember using Firefox and Thunderbird. Any way to debug this?
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
It still happens with FC6 under the same conditions (except using the latest of all software involved).
There is also a similar problem in RHEL 5.1. I posted some information on it in bug 244530.
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I rarely if ever see this anymore, although there's a good chance it's because I'm now using Fedora's IcedTea with F8 instead of Sun's Java plugin (I suspect it has to do with proprietary plugins, the fewer the better).
Thanks for your update.