firefox 3.5.4 broken?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 30 October 2009, 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.
>
It died, and sent a crash report on the second backout click, about 10 links 
into the site.

>> also with Thunderbird running in the background...
>
>I am observing
>* corrupt indices and "random email tagging".
>* "compact folders" not wanting to traverse deep imap folders.
>* filtering issues
>
>Ralf
>


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