firefox 3.5.4 broken?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 16:38 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 10/30/2009 04:25 PM, Antonio M wrote:
> > 2009/10/30 Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de>:
> >> On 10/30/2009 12:26 AM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Highlight a word on a web page.
> >>> 2. Right click on word.
> >>> 3. Select "Search Google for "word"...
> >>> 4. ???
> >>> 5. Crash box appears.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone else?
> >>>
> >> I am not observing this issue, but I already had 2 firefox segfaults and one
> >> firefox "desktop freeze" since today's firefox update.
> >>
> >> Seems to me as if firefox is try to play catchup with the embarrassing shape
> >> thunderbird is in :(
> 
> > It works fine here,
> 
> Well I can reproduce the segfaults semi-deterministically:
> http://www.paulmccartney.com
> 
> Firefox-3.5.4 either immediately dies, or dies after a little bit of 
> browsing.

The standard response to FF problems is "have you tried running it in
safe-mode"? I'm surprised no-one has said it so far. Many problems are
actually caused by plugins rather than FF itself.

poc