Firefox and Thunderbird crash on F7.

[Erik P. Olsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:46 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>>
>>>> It looks like getComplexValue() is to do with getting your user prefs.
>>>> Try closing Firefox and Thunderbird, and then mv ~/.mozilla
>>>> ~/.mozilla-old and restarting them, see if the problem is gone...
>>> I already did that and it does not solve the problem.
>> Hum, well two ideas: see if this changes anything
>>
>> $ firefox -safe-mode
>>
>> and
>>
>> $ strace firefox
>>
>> to see if we can get a clu
>>
>> Also... is about:plugins one of those things that crash?  What plugins
>> are listed, if not?
>>
>> -Andy
>>
> Well there is a problem. about:plugins shows what the firefox default
> configuration thinks it is using but it may not actually using them. 
> 
> To find out what is really being used you have to go to:
> about:config and change the parameter:
> browser.download.hide_plugins_without_extensions to false from true.

I can do this change without problems but Edit->Preferences crashes as usual :-(
> Then you can go to: Edit->preferences->Content->Manage 
> to see what is really being used.
> 
> However, since the OP can't go to Edit->preferences without crashing we
> have a real problem.

Yes, but I don't think it has any thing to do with the plugins. Remember 
Thunderbird has similar problems and it has no plugins.

-- 
Erik.