481963 - (firefox-bin:23224): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed errors with Beta3 build

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Murali Nandigama [:murali]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090305 Firefox/3.1b3

During plugins testing on any website with video like cnn or abc or your pick, if the video is run, firefox is throwing a stream of 
(firefox-bin:23224): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Thanks
Murali

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start firefox on linux from commandline [ ./firefox ]
2.goto www.abc.com or nbc.com or cnn.com 
3.run any video
3.check for error
Actual Results:  
(firefox-bin:23224): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Expected Results:  
no such errors.

Comment 1

[Karl Tomlinson (:karlt)]

A break point in g_log, would facilitate some stack traces of these warnings.

Comment 2

[Adrian Aichner [:anaran]]

This problem is still around in Ubuntu 13.10, both for firefox and firefox-trunk.

Happens under Gnome and xcfe.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Resolving old bugs which are likely not relevant any more, since NPAPI plugins are deprecated.