Description of problem: Firefox beagle extension often crashes javascript unless beagled is running Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): beagle-0.2.3-4 How reproducible: Using firefox with many sites while javascript is enabled causes firefox to crash unexpectedly, but only when beagle extension is included and beagled is unavailable. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Kill beagled 2. Start Firefox with beagle extension still in place 3. Try visiting a few websites that use javascript intensively. Actual results: Firefox crashes Additional info: I have not sought to investigate how this crash is happening in any detail, but including javascript extensions in firefox which try to access a non-existent server seems quite likely to cause problems. Firefox does not produce any debugging output by default when these crashes occur. This is problem is related to the stop gap solution employed to counter bug 183898, which means that beagled is not started by default, and made worse by bug 186179, which makes beagled difficult to start automatically. If this problem appears reproducible, then it would seem sensible to remove the beagle extension from firefox as a stop gap. I will investigate a little further, one I have finished using Firefox to post this report :).
Further testing suggests that I am probably wrong to be blaming beagle for this bug. I have been able to eliminate crashes on some sites by running beagled or removing the beagle extension to Firefox. However, I am still getting crashes when visiting sites like http://www.anandtech.com whenever javascript is enabled. Therefore, it appears that my problem lies in Firefox, and beagle was only causing specific problems because it uses javascript in its implementation. I am reassigning this to NOTABUG