289246 - Crashes or freezes when entering characters in google search and sometimes on webpage input fields

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.9.3 (Ubuntu)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.9.3 (Ubuntu)

Pretty much every time I try to put anything into the google search the browser
crashes.  Sometimes it will freeze and I'll have to kill it.  And about 33% of
the time when I input characters into a input form for example google.com's
search field it will crash or freeze.  

Pecularity:  if I put my curser in the field and space over 2-3 times it more
than likely won't crash.

uname -a output:  Linux server 2.6.8.1-5-amd64-generic #1 Thu Mar 31 22:15:42
UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Insert characters into the google search (freeze)
2.  Or insert characters into other forms
3.  

Actual Results:  
firefox either A) crashes completely out, or B) freezes and I have to kill it.

Expected Results:  
not crash, basically.

Comment 1

[Jean-Marc Desperrier]

Check with the people who produced your x86_64 build (ubuntu ?)

This is not a standard build, and you should check with them why your install
isn't working. It's outside of mozilla's bugzilla scope to investigate on such
general problems on a platform not supported and a binary not produced by
mozilla.org.

If Ubuntu investigates and comes back with a request to check in a patch to
solve that problem, it's another matter altogether, but I don't expect they
would have released a version with such a major problem, so it's certainly
something broken in your install. Go to Ubuntu related ressources to check.