248314 - Many crashes in seemingly random situations

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michal Kosmulski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Official Firefox 0.9 (Linux gtk2+xft)

With firefox 0.9 I have experienced a whole lot of crashes in seemingly random
situations - usually I was just browsing and after clicking on a link, the
browser crashed, usually not even showing the crash report window, so often I
could not even reproduce the URL I was entering when the crash occured. A sample
URL I did write down is given in the URL field.
I have the flash plugin (version 7) and java plugin (from Sun) installed.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
Be unlucky and click the wrong link
Actual Results:  
Browser window disappeared, leaving no trace of what happened

Expected Results:  
Shouldn't crash

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040623 Firefox/0.9.0+

Works for me. Perhaps you've not installed Java correctly?

Comment 2

[Michal Kosmulski]

Looks like you're right. I removed libjava*.so from plugins/ directory and now
the pages which used to crash seem to work. Looks like the java installer
actually does something more than just copy the so file to plugins/, I'll have
to run their installer again. Thank you for your tip - I hadn't thaught the
crashes were the plugin's fault.