Description of problem: Using the Mate desktop, the Firefox browser is prone to crash and cause the system to log out without user intervention. The same thing has been seen on Cinnamon desktop as well when flash was not installed. This needs more experimentation. The main culprit is a website, atheist-experience.org, which has a Blip player on its homepage. Watching a flash video from a website such as Youtube.com or bbc.co.uk is no problem, but the atheist website crashes firefox and the Mate and possibly Cinnamon desktops causing the system to log the user out. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Firefox 24.2.0-2.mga4 Mate 1.6.0-8.mga4 Cinnamon 2.0.0-4.mga4 suspicious How reproducible: Run firefox in Mate/Cinnamon desktop environment without and with flash player installed and visit atheist-experience.org Steps to Reproduce: 1.install task-mate and flash-player 2.log in using Mate desktop environment 3.start Firefox and visit atheist-experience.org Need to check this site on other browsers in Mate, Cinnamon and other desktops. Gnome seems stable, gnome-classic is stable for this test with Firefox and Gnome's Web browser. The bug has been filmed and can be uploaded but is 800MB atm! Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
Priority: Normal => High
Video of the fault at https://vimeo.com/85282504 or search for Firefox Crash.
After testing all other desktop environments (Gnome, KDE4, IceWM , Windowmaker, Lxde, Xfce, Cinnamon, E17 and Openbox) and seven web browsers likely to view the stream (Web, Opera, Chromium, Konqueror, Firefox, Xombrero and Surf) only Mate has an issue with the atheist-experience.org website. All of the others showed the webpage without crashing although some of them had trouble playing the stream (including Firefox and Web on certain desktops or refused to do so, saying that the program wasn't available, including Web IIRC and Surf (always when working). 3 of the 7 browsers tested crashed the Mate desktop and forced us back to the login screen, namely Firefox, Xombrero (which needs to use the search engine to find the site - a search for atheist exp is sufficient) and Surf (started by terminal command $ surf http://atheist-experience.org). This is very much a Mate desktop issue regarding this bug with the flash player installed.
I can not reproduce this bug with either Firefox or Chromium browsers. Would you mind to post your .xsession-errors.old file to some pastebin and give a link here? Also, which graphic display adapter and dm you use?
CC: (none) => tarakbumba
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
After retesting the above on my pc with a blank .xsession-errors file, nothing is noted there. With the Mate desktop the atheist-experience.org website crashes and logs out using browsers firefox, xombrero and surf (run from console). Video card is: Description: âBeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D] Module: âCard:ATI Radeon HD 6400 and later (radeon/fglrx) on Asus F1A55-Mle motherboard
(In reply to Andrew S from comment #4) > After retesting the above on my pc with a blank .xsession-errors file, > nothing is noted there. > > With the Mate desktop the atheist-experience.org website crashes and logs > out using browsers firefox, xombrero and surf (run from console). > > Video card is: > Description: âBeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6530D] > > Module: âCard:ATI Radeon HD 6400 and later (radeon/fglrx) > on Asus F1A55-Mle motherboard Please, look for ~/.xsession-errors.old file after crash. Also, would you mind to change your display manager other than to gdm? Still crashing? See, i also using same video card driver but for an ATI 6850 gpu. Still can not reproduce this bug on my x86_64 system. Using custom build mdm-display-manager.
Created attachment 4967 [details] Cauldron-Mate_Desktop-Firefox screenshot This screenshot shows that http://atheist-experience.org/ website's videos play fine on Cauldron Mate Desktop with Firefox web browser. No crash is noticed.
Reporter, please provide needed info mentioned above. Otherwise i think i'll close this bug report as Invalid.
so done
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID