Firefox crashes - who can reproduce it?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:41:47 +0100, Leon Stringer wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 11:08 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > When loading  http://www.radsportnews.com  Firefox crashes for me. I get
> > this first bit when starting it without its wrapper:
> > 
> > $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.4 /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.4/firefox-bin 
> > The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
> > This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> > The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
> >   (Details: serial 120 error_code 8 request_code 146 minor_code 3)
> >   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
> >    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
> >    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
> >    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
> >    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> > 
> > 
> > Since I've had to downgrade a few packages earlier to get a working X,
> > I cannot be sure that this isn't related. Who can reproduce the crash
> > before I would file a bug?
> > 
> 
> It works fine for me. I notice it's got a Flash banner, have you got the
> Flash plug-in installed? I've had some stability issues with this in the
> past. Try disabling this and see if the page is OK.

Confirmed. flash-plugin-7.0.63-1.i386 is the culprit. Didn't think
about it, since the page works fine with FC5. This is bad regression.