firefox crashes

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#1

dear all,
Most of the time firefox crashes, here is first few lines of the bug report. How to get around this
thanks you all

System: Linux 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10400090
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Enabled
GTK+ Theme: Crux
Icon Theme: Crux

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
325bf086-f4d1-ef61-26a81901-11c35727 is dumped
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
3f6f6112-7e54-da7b-0b4540f5-7c0d8cba is dumped

MDRawHeader
signature = 0x504d444d
version = 0xa793
stream_count = 6
stream_directory_rva = 0x20
checksum = 0x0
time_date_stamp = 0x49111f9c 2008-11-05 04:22:52

#2

What Firefox version are you running?

#3

I’m running Firefox 3.0.3 under OpenSUSE 11.0 and KDE. It crashes randomly, simply disappearing from the screen. When I restart it, it asks if I want to restore the crashed session. There are no clues in /var/log/messages.

It also sometimes hangs in a wait state. The only way to get rid of it is “killall firefox”.

Ironically enough, this is my second attempt to post this message. Firefox crashed on my first attempt.:frowning:

#4

I am having the same experience(s). Firefox 3.03 hangs repeatibly when downloading files via web links and randomly when just surfing. A gnome close window will not work, you need to kill the firefox process. I am running openSuSE 11 2.6.25.18-0.2-pae kernel. All openSuSE patches have been installed.

Any suggestions on how to capture debug info to help find the problem?? It sounds like FF 3.05 has the same issues.

#5

Mine does too even just opening a flash video. The latest firefox update last night seems to help with the flash issue. I have not try in the downloading side.
For surfing it looks working fine, I haven’t had a problem since last night.

#6

I wonder if this is a Firefox bug or an OpenSUSE bug. I haven’t encountered it under Kubuntu. And I don’t know how to get any useful debug information either, since /var/log/messages is not helpful.

#7

pwabrahams wrote:
> I wonder if this is a Firefox bug or an OpenSUSE bug. I haven’t
> encountered it under Kubuntu. And I don’t know how to get any useful
> debug information either, since /var/log/messages is not helpful.

It is likely neither. Firefox 3.0.3 runs reliably on openSUSE 11.0 on my x86_64
system.

What do you find in directory ~/.mozilla/firefox/Crash\ Reports/? Given the
name, I would expect useful info there.

Larry

#8

This is happening to me, too…specifically when I go to blogs with flash video embedded from youtube or other hosting sites on the web. Here is as much as I could get of the bug report:

System: Linux 2.6.25.18-0.2-pae #1 SMP 2008-10-21 16:30:26 +0200 i686
X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Vendor Release: 10400090
Selinux: No
Accessibility: Disabled
GTK+ Theme: Gilouche
Icon Theme: Gilouche

Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0
CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0

----------- .xsession-errors ---------------------
(firefox:27102): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox:27102): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
(firefox:27102): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox:27102): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
(firefox:27102): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (firefox:27102): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion G_IS_OBJECT (object)’ failed
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8
18cb70c2-3e52-77cb-6f308769-18c78f1f is dumped

MDRawHeader
signature = 0x504d444d
version = 0xa793
stream_count = 6
stream_directory_rva = 0x20
checksum = 0x0
time_date_stamp = 0x491e6864 2008-11-15 06:12:52
flags = 0x0

mDirectory[0]
MDRawDirectory
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location.data_size = 532
location.rva = 0x68

mDirectory[1]
MDRawDirectory
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location.data_size = 50008
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mDirectory[2]
MDRawDirectory
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location.data_size = 56
location.rva = 0x20938

mDirectory[3]
MDRawDirectory
stream_type = 6
location.data_size = 168
location.rva = 0x20a08

mDirectory[4]
MDRawDirectory
stream_type = 15
location.data_size = 44
location.rva = 0x20d80

mDirectory[5]
MDRawDirectory
stream_type = 1197932545
location.data_size = 12
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Streams:
stream type 0x3 at index 0
stream type 0x4 at index 1
stream type 0x6 at index 3
stream type 0x7 at index 2
stream type 0xf at index 4
stream type 0x47670001 at index 5

MinidumpThreadList
thread_count = 11

thread[0]
MDRawThread
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suspend_count = 0
priority_class = 0x0
priority = 0x0
teb = 0x0
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stack.memory.data_size = 0x3c0c
stack.memory.rva = 0x280
thread_context.data_size = 0x2cc
thread_context.rva = 0x3e90

MDRawContextX86
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dr1 = 0x0
dr2 = 0x0
dr3 = 0x0
dr6 = 0x0
dr7 = 0x0
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ds = 0x7b
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esi = 0xaa30c788
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esp = 0xbfdd6a9c
ss = 0x7b
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ds = 0x7b
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ebx = 0xb3f8968
edx = 0x3b
ecx = 0x80
eax = 0xfffffdfc
ebp = 0xb10352bc
eip = 0xffffe430
cs = 0x73
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esp = 0xb1035264
ss = 0x7b
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Stack
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MDRawThread
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stack.memory.rva = 0x61b8
thread_context.data_size = 0x2cc
thread_context.rva = 0x6360

MDRawContextX86
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#9

Here’s more, this is repeated a bunch of times in my mozilla firefox error console:

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#10

It’s doing it in Opera, too…are there any packages or repositories I need to add to fix this?

#11

I am having the same problem. In my case after a few crashes it shouts down and won’t restart. In fact, other programs will not start including games, Gimp, and Thunderbird. Opera will install and run, but I hate it.

What I have to do is delete the .kde profiles and start over.

Just finished setting it up again and I only installed a few extensions. I suspected AdBlock Plus so I uninstalled it. So far so good. All I have now is WOT, Secure Login, Flashgot (could be the culprit) TabMix Plus (also could be the culprit) and PDF download. I have about 10 themes downloaded to see if it was theme related. So far I can’t see where it is theme related.

From the posts above it appears to be flash related. That would be my guess anyway.

If anyone has found anything else please post.

Thanks.

#12

Here’s what I should have done: copy the contents of ~/.mozilla to a backup directory, then delete ~/.mozilla. I neglected the first step and so I lost a lot of stuff I would have preferred to keep – but Firefox seems to be working fine now.

I think the problem was that some configuration files, particularly the ones relating to plugins, were left over from an older version, and Firefox was utterly unable to cope with that situation.

#13

Just thought I would say I have noticed this with Firefox 3.0.4 - the default version with openSUSE 11.1 my firefox crashes everytime I try to visit NFL.com - Official Site of the National Football League. I doubt this is a corrupted cookie or something since I have only been on long enough to visit about 3 websites but so far everytime I try to visit nfl.com firefox will crash.

I did not see anything in ~/.mozilla/firefox that looked like a crash report. This is happening with a fresh install of 11.1 32bit and Firefox 3.0.4 - no installed software that did not come from the DVD.

#14

logan85 wrote:

>
> Just thought I would say I have noticed this with Firefox 3.0.4 - the
> default version with openSUSE 11.1 my firefox crashes everytime I try
> to visit ‘NFL.com - Official Site of the National Football League’
> (http://www.nfl.com). I doubt this is a corrupted cookie or something
> since I have only been on long enough to visit about 3 websites but so
> far everytime I try to visit nfl.com firefox will crash.
>
> I did not see anything in ~/.mozilla/firefox that looked like a crash
> report. This is happening with a fresh install of 11.1 32bit and
> Firefox 3.0.4 - no installed software that did not come from the DVD.
>
>

Works fine from here to a point.

nfl.com does seem to drop off the map every now and then if I leave the home page open and I have to refresh the address.

Could it be down to the media player or codecs on the page though?

I have loads of different codecs installed including the Novell moonlight so maybe you just need to install more :slight_smile:

Whoops, sorry just realised i am also using FF3.0.5 maybe an update to this might also help?

–
Mark…

Nil illegitimi carborundum

#15

Thanks! After I installed a codec pack NFL.com is no longer crashing Firefox.

#16

I have been seeing some behavior that perhaps is related. While Firefox occasionally crashes form me, what I see more often is that it becomes unresponsive. When I use top, I see that Firefox is using close to 100% CPU. Based on some of the posts in this thread, I decided to start shutting off add ons and plug-ins. I had two flash plug-ins (two different versions, apparently), and when I disabled them, Firefox went down to expected levels of CPU usage (in the single digits), and has stayed there over a day of usage. Looks to me like flash is the problem, although I should probably go through a re-enable everything else to make sure.

#17

Both Firefox 3.0.5 and Opera 9.3 visiting oprah.com crash. Is it possibly something to with Suse? I’ll go over to another distro and try the same.

#18

40% browser crashes are related to flash. Deal with it.

#19

I started firefox from a command line so I could see the messages it was generating. This shows up repeatedly:

(npviewer.bin:17202): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widge                                                    t)' failed
*** NSPlugin Viewer  *** WARNING: unhandled variable 17 in NPN_GetValue()

npviewer.bin is part of the package nspluginwrapper, whose package description says this:

nspluginwrapper is an Open Source compatibility plugin for Netscape 4
(NPAPI) plugins. It enables you to use plugins on platforms they were
not built for. For example, you can use the plugins compiled for i386
in Mozilla on Linux/x86_64 or other architectures.

Since I’m running on an x86_64 system, I suspect the problem lies in nspluginwrapper.

#20

I recommend You to use the “Alpha” version of flash (which works flawlessly for me and i never had a crash because of that) and also the 64 bit Java works without a hitch.

Links:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.d21.1.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

http://www.java.net/download/jdk6/6u12/promoted/b03/binaries/jre-6u12-ea-bin-b03-linux-amd64-22_dec_2008-rpm.bin

When installing 64 bit plugins to firefox i recommend uninstalling nspluginwrapper. It helped for a friend of mine. If You got any questions how to install them just ask here.