firefox 3.5.4 broken?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Oct 30 15:38:41 UTC 2009


On 10/30/2009 04:25 PM, Antonio M wrote:
> 2009/10/30 Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de>:
>> On 10/30/2009 12:26 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>>
>>> 1. Highlight a word on a web page.
>>> 2. Right click on word.
>>> 3. Select "Search Google for "word"...
>>> 4. ???
>>> 5. Crash box appears.
>>>
>>> Anyone else?
>>>
>> I am not observing this issue, but I already had 2 firefox segfaults and one
>> firefox "desktop freeze" since today's firefox update.
>>
>> Seems to me as if firefox is try to play catchup with the embarrassing shape
>> thunderbird is in :(

> It works fine here,

Well I can reproduce the segfaults semi-deterministically:
http://www.paulmccartney.com

Firefox-3.5.4 either immediately dies, or dies after a little bit of 
browsing.

> also with Thunderbird running in the background...

I am observing
* corrupt indices and "random email tagging".
* "compact folders" not wanting to traverse deep imap folders.
* filtering issues

Ralf







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