Description of problem: Occasionally going from a website to gmail or google reader firefox will crash with the bugbuddy dialog. After restarting firefox, it seems to work fine for several hours. I thought it might be flash, but in most cases going to gmail or google reader doesn't require flash, but those application use quite a bit of Javascript, so is it possible for Javascript to crash firefox? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [jesusr@roadrunner ~]$ rpm -q firefox firefox-2.0.0.12-1.fc8.i386 How reproducible: At least once or more times daily. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open firefox 2. Browse to a website www.redhat.com, zeusville.wordpress.com, or gmail. 3. After perusing the site for a bit, go to http://www.google.com/reader/view/ 4. Before the page loads firefox crashes with bugbuddy. 5. Restarting firefox and choosing restore session will NOT restore the url from #3 as it doesn't think it actually loaded it. Actual results: firefox goes BOOM Expected results: firefox continues to behave and be my slave app handling countless hours of abuse :) or in other words, it should just work. Additional info: Attaching debug output
Created attachment 296461 [details] gecko bugreport
Sorry, this bugreport is meant for the machine processing and the upstream hasn't provided the facilities for its processing yet. For know, we have to live with the old manual way of doing things. Please install firefox-debuginfo; in order to do this you have to enable -debuginfo repository. yum install --enablerepo=\*debuginfo firefox-debuginfo (if you use x86_64 firefox, install firefox-debuginfo.x86_64 package). Then run firefox with a parameter -g. That will start firefox running inside of gdb debugger. Then use command run and do whatever you did to make firefox crash. When it happens, you should go back to the gdb and run (gdb) thread apply all backtrace This produces usually many screens of the text. Copy all of them into a text editor and attach the file to the bug as an uncompressed attachment. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 296636 [details] gdb firefox output Here is the gdb output. scenario used to create crash: 1) start firefox (displays start.fedoraproject.org) 2) click on Gmail bookmark (http://mail.google.com) 3) while gmail is loading I double click to create a new tab 4) once gmail is loaded, I click the google reader bookmark (http://www.google.com/reader/view/) 5) firefox segv :)
We found that this bug has been already registered in the upstream database (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421929) and believe that it is more appropriate to let it be resolved upstream. Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Thank you for the bug report.