Bug 4207

Summary:	Firefox crashes when launched with -new-tab argument if not already running
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	user7 <wassi>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins
Version:	1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	firefox-9.0.1-0.1.mga1.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description user7 2012-01-20 16:44:42 CET

Description of problem:
If Firefox is opened by any other program, such as akregator, it crashes instantly if Firefox wasn't already open before (otherwise everything works fine and a new tab is opened with the requested link)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9.0.1

How reproducible:
see below

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close all open instances of Firefox
2. Open Akregator and right-click on any link, then select "open using an external browser" (assuming that Firefox is your standard browser)
OR
type "firefox -new-tab http://www.mageia.org" in a terminal and hit enter
OR
enter a URL in krunner and hit enter (assuming that Firefox is your standard browser)

Expected result: Firefox starts and opens the requested webpage

Actual result: Firefox crashes, prints "Speicherzugriffsfehler" (= segmentation fault) to console

I couldn't find any bug reports upstream, despite version 9.0.1 being out for quite a while now, so I figured it might be a mageia-specific problem.

Also, this used to work until some weeks ago. Unfortunately I can't tell exactly which update broke it. Also note that this problem does not exist in current cauldron, so it may not be related to Firefox at all. However, I didn't know what else I should assign it too, sorry about that.

Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2012-01-21 00:28:18 CET

Can't confirm that here.  Using the example
firefox -new-tab http://www.mageia.org
works fine on my i586 Mageia 1 system.

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 user7 2012-01-21 00:47:17 CET

Ok, I apologize for the noise. After reading your comment, I disabled all Firefox extensions and re-enabled them one by one. As it turned out, one of them (called "Binnen-I-Be-Gone") caused Firefox to crash on activation. Disabling it solved the problem, all of the above-mentioned use cases now work as they should.

I didn't think of this before because I had been using all of my extensions for quite a while now and only recently, after a round of mageia updates, did the crashing start.

Anyways, I can live without that extension and everything is working fine again. Thanks a lot for your help, and sorry for the noise!

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID