Firefox 3.0.3 crashes

hash · 2008-10-11 06:17:44

Since I upgraded my FF to 3.0.3 version it started to crash. I've never had such a problem with FF. It crashes on some specific sites and sometimes the crash is just random. Here is the konsole output from Firefox crash:

The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 45425 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

The site that causes Firefox to crash: http://www.gameex.net/

Dieter@be · 2008-10-11 09:40:12

Cool, I had a very similar error.

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/libflashplayer.so [/opt/mozilla/lib/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32]
The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 17432 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Seems like it has something to do with flash. I'm using flash on Arch64 (as described in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _on_Arch64 )
I'm using the "local/nspluginwrapper-flash-beta 10.0.12.10-1" however (which comes from aur iirc)
I also use pulse audio and installed libflashsupport-pulse as described on http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pul … PulseAudio )

Youtube and similar sites, other flash sites work fine.

orasis · 2008-10-11 21:44:35

Do you have Compiz-Fusion enabled? - It's telling you that you ran out of available memory. - When I use Compiz I always tend to get this error in Firefox, Mplayer etc when I load a video or Firefox loads too much flash animation on a webpage.

Solution? As far as I can tell - Buy a new video card with more video RAM.

Dieter@be · 2008-10-11 22:13:26

Don't think that's it. I disabled compiz fusion and tried again. same result. I even removed compiz from my autostarted apps and rebooted and tried again. same result. (with xfwm4 instead of compiz)

toxygen · 2008-10-12 00:32:17

I'm getting a similar error on arch (not x86_64). even with the noscript extension active and blocking scripts, i just clicked on the link to the gameex page and firefox went down.

running kdemod3, no compiz in system, ff3.0.3 built from aur (firefox-optimized)
q6600 quad core with cflags -march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe

for what it's worth, youtube works almost flawlessly. used to crash all the time with ff2 and ff3.0.0, i havent had youtube crash the browser in weeks

Last edited by toxygen (2008-10-12 01:39:13)

hash · 2008-10-12 08:23:16

orasis wrote:

Do you have Compiz-Fusion enabled? - It's telling you that you ran out of available memory. - When I use Compiz I always tend to get this error in Firefox, Mplayer etc when I load a video or Firefox loads too much flash animation on a webpage.
Solution? As far as I can tell - Buy a new video card with more video RAM.

Disabling compiz didn't solve the problem. Video card also shouldn't be a problem. I have gf 7600gt (maybe not a high-end card) but my friend on gentoo also get that crash and he has gf 8800gtx. Looks like its a firefox bug

toxygen · 2008-10-12 20:49:37

just tested the site on ff 3.0.3 (in windows), and konqueror (kdemod3 version), both loaded that page w/o problems. so something in the ff 3.0.3 for linux + flash?

i'm using flashplugin-beta, are you guys using the 9.0 version of flashplugin?

toorima · 2008-10-12 23:36:38

Firefox used to crash on some sites for me, even if the site didn't have flash, after clearing out the files in ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/ it is now stable

sinister99 · 2008-10-13 01:28:02

I'm having the same problem, mainly related to flash based sites. No compiz or anything, kdemod 4, and flash from extra.

That site immediately crashes my browser every time.

adamruss · 2008-10-19 08:24:25

same problem, i dont think it's related to flash since even on safe mode it crashes.
i also found out after removing pkg flashplugin i still have flash! i have no idea how.... couldnt find libflashplayer.so anywhere

Last edited by adamruss (2008-10-19 08:25:30)

Dieter@be · 2008-10-20 19:27:20

countryparson wrote:

I was having the same problem on a completely fresh install. I found a fix listed at the AUR site: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16993
What worked for me was:
#mkdir /etc/adobe
#echo "WindowlessDisable=true" >> /etc/adobe/mms.cfg

Doesn't work for me ( nspluginwrapper-flash-beta 10.0.12.10-1 / Arch64. More specs see higher in the thread) (I tried restarting firefox. no avail)

PS: I think most users will have this directory & file by default. the setting is at the bottom.

Mashi · 2008-10-21 03:21:16

My firefox started crashing yesterday. I can't say for sure it has anything to do with flash, it started after I installed mozplugger to get wav files working, though I have uninstalled it now. It seems to crash on random events, opening a page, a keystroke, etc. Funny thing is if I start it again it gives me the option to restore my session and loads everything fine.

Edit: happening on my winxp laptop too

Last edited by Mashi (2008-10-21 06:58:29)

adamruss · 2008-10-21 08:49:54

installing "firefox-spookyet" from AUR solved most of crashes, and mega improved my firefox, it still crashes on the gameex site.
thunderbird still crashes all the time.

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#1 2008-10-11 06:17:44

Firefox 3.0.3 crashes

#2 2008-10-11 09:40:12

Re: Firefox 3.0.3 crashes

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