Iceweasel/Firefox segmentation fault

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Daniel Wayne Armstrong <daniel-HRJVlgn2G/y5aS82P/H3Zg at public.gmane.org>

| Hello ... My father has a laptop running Debian Squeeze with all
| updates installed and he says that Iceweasel/Firefox 23.0 crashes on
| him daily. I managed to get the browser to consistently crash on the
| vanityfair.com website with this error:

My 23.01 Firefox on Fedora F19 x86-64 does not crash on that URL (I
had no desire to browse the site -- no wait, now I'm hooked by the 
Mountbatten sisters dishing on Diana).

Was your replication only on his laptop, or could you replicate it on
another machine?

| After searching there is not much to be found relevant to this issue
| ... the closest thing I found was this:
| 
| https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=896287
| 
| ... but this laptop has Intel video (not nvidia) and the proposed fix
| - set "layers.acceleration.force-enabled=false" - already had the
| correct setting.

I would create a new report.  But I don't know if it is a Firefox
problem or a debian problem, so I don't know which to report it to.
When in doubt, debian, I guess.

| He doesn't have any mozilla add-ons installed and running in safe-mode
| continues to result in crashing with above error message.

No Flash?  Flash is blamed for many problems.

| Any help getting this fixed would be appreciated. Thanks!

Firefox is so complicated that I would not expect TLUGgers to be the
best to report it to.

Replication is important.  It's good that you can reliably provoke
it.  Even better would be a way of duplicating it on other systems and
configurations.  Without that, it could just be a random problem with
your father's machine.
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