Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 07:55:28PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
>> Package: iceweasel
>> Version: 3.5.3-2
>> Severity: important
>>
>> I am used to iceweasel crashing often (at least once a day). After the last
>> upgrade however, it crashes about once every two minutes. This is getting
>> too much. 
>>
>> When I try to restart iceweasel after a crash, it now displays a screen
>> beginning with the text
>>
>>   "Well, this is embarrassing.
>>   Iceweasel is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is
>>   usually caused by a recently opened web page."
>>
>> Not very helpful, that. At least it could say which web page caused the
>> crash. And anyway a good program should ignore bad input, not crash because
>> of it. I cannot reproduce the crashes. They seem random. To me, the program
>> has become unusable.
>>
>>  ~/.xsession-errors says after each crash:
>>  (firefox-bin:13308): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid unclassed pointer in
>>  cast to `GtkObject'
> 
> Is it more stable with version 3.5.6 (and xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.6-1) ?
> 
> Mike

It is. Even version 3.5.5. And I no longer see this embarrassing 
"Embarrassing" message.

Sorry I forgot to tell you. For a while I downgraded Firefox (and 
avoided upgrading it), but about 2 weeks ago I did upgrade it, and it 
seems perfectly stable now.

Regards, Jan