This is now fixed _ thanks to Linux buddy Joe Slim Looks like the problem was with libmoon - Moonlight is a free Silverlight clone, allowing Free Software systems to run embedded web-browser objects or standalone code targetting Microsoft Silverlight.
Here is what I discovered and how it was fixed. 1. This problem appears to be triggered by some web pages e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk and looks like it is a pluging / media related Works 2. Terminal u...@computer:~$ firefox {then In Firefox GUI attempt to open page that causes a crash e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk Firefox crashes} Attempting to load the system libmoon u...@computer:~$ 3. Using synaptic 'Completely Removed' package libmoon 4. Firefox now works 5. Using synaptic installed package libmoon 6. Firefox still works -----Original Message----- From: Micah Gersten <[email protected]> Reply-to: Bug 675764 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug 675764] Re: firefox crash following upgrade from 10.4 to 10.10 Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:29:55 -0000 Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one. You can start the profile manager with the following command: firefox -ProfileManager ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Tags added: libmoon moonlight -- firefox crash following upgrade from 10.4 to 10.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/675764 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
