* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> severity 299486 important
> thanks
> 
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:08:51PM +0200, Florian Boelstler wrote:
> > Steve Langasek wrote:
> > >>I was referring to the initial bug report:
> > >>"Whenever I try to write anything in the address bar or google search bar
> > >>the Firefox chases (I uninstalled all extensions and wiped out all
> > >>configuration files)"
> 
> > >>In my situation Firefox freezes and sometimes renders KDE unusable.
> 
> > >... which is clearly *not* the symptom being reported in the original
> > >report.  A lockup may be due to this same bug, or an unrelated bug, or a 
> > >bug
> > >in your window manager.
> 
> > OK, sorry for providing incorrect information in the first place.
> > Since the original report mentioned "just typing a few characters into
> > the location/google bar and freeze" seemed somehow related to my
> > problem. Whatever,...
> 
> He said crash, not freeze.  (Well, he said "chase", but "crash" was clearly
> meant.)
> 
> >  (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox -P default
> 
> > After typing a few characters into the location/google bar Firefox freezes.
> 
> > Forgot to mention that I use the SwitchProxy extension.
> > "~/.firefox/plugins" contains: flashplayer.xpt, libflashplayer.so
> 
> > Removed XUL.mfasl once between restarts of Firefox.
> 
> > I didn't get to make my window manager unusable again.
> 
> Ok, so it sounds like this was an unrelated extension problem.
> 
> The original crash reported has so far only been reproduced on systems
> running 2.6.11, which is not a release kernel.  I'm therefore downgrading
> this bug; unless someone (preferably the original reporter, so that we know
> we're talking about the same bug!) can show a backtrace running on a kernel
> that's targetted for sarge release, I recommend closing the report.

It also seems that everyone was running a testing system and not
unstable, so perhaps it is some older library version bug that we're
seeing. I'm not certain about that correlation, but that was the
impression I got from looking at the reports. Is anyone not running
testing and seeing this? 


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