Bug#550873: iceweasel: embarrassing crashes

[Mike Hommey]

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