261226 - Thunderbird crashes after viewing several news posts

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Scott Baker]

I read news.redhat.com to get NNTP access to their mailing lists and this
morning I've been able to crash Thunderbird probably six times in a row JUST by
reading newsgroups. I'm a very casual reader. I go through the newsgroup reading
articles with the keybord. I use N to go to the next message, and R to mark a
thread read. After approximately 20 messages or so TB crashes. The group in
question is gated.rhl-beta-list, but I don't think that's the group is the problem.

The following are talkback IDs related to the crashes this morning: TB951579H,
TB951148W, TB951126H, TB951106M.

I can reproduce this crash pretty easily. I'm happy to offer any more
information that would be helpful.

Comment 1

[Scott Baker]

It should be noted that these crashes are experienced running Thunderbird
version 0.8 (20040913) on Linux.

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

using tbird 0.8, I'm (so far) unable to get a crash while reading news articles.
tested on fedora core 2, using the news.mozilla.org server, going thru
n.p.m.test, using N and R shortcuts.

the talkback server is still backlogged.

Comment 3

[Scott Baker]

After some further research this appears to be a problem with a broken
extension. It appears an extension was causing the crash after it didn't get
updated between verion 0.7.x and 0.8.x

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

for future reference, what was the extension?

Comment 5

[Scott Baker]

I believe enigmail was the one causing the crash. I'm not 100% sure, all I know
is that after I upgrade it the problems seems to have gone away.