Firefox crashing when accessing an SSL-secured web site

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 19:39 +0200, Felix Schwarz wrote:
> Am 06.07.2010 16:11, schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> >> since two days I have the problem that I can not use Firefox
> >> (3.6.4-1.fc13.x86_64) anymore as it will crash as soon as I visit any
> >> SSL-secured web site [1]. I'm NOT using any non-free plugins like Adobe
> >> Flash.
> >
> > Free plugins can also be buggy. Always run FF in safe mode before
> > deciding that plugins are not at fault.
> 
> sorry, maybe I was not clear enough when I wrote: "I even reinstalled 
> firefox and created a new system user to check if this was dependend on 
> my profile but it was not."

Instead of reinstalling it you could run "rpm -V firefox" to see if
anything had changed.

> So yes, I started Firefox with 'firefox -safe-mode' and the browser 
> still crashes. Using the safe mode basically rules out plugins as a 
> source of my problems, right?

Yes, but that's not what you said earlier. Never mind.

poc