I have exactly this problem. When running Firefox on the command line, the error I get is:
firefox: Fatal IO error 10 (No child processes) on X server :0.0. Fri Jul 9 01:15:39 PDT 2010 (Note that the program exited early in the morning while away from my computer.) -- Firefox suddenly disappears several times lately https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592416 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs