after update gmail is crashing firefox (repost)

[danielsender]

I already posted this issue but I got absolutely no answers so far. So I will try again. I have a Dell Dimension running 14.04. Whenever I open gmail on firefox, firefox crashes. The problem does not occur if I use the "basic html" option on the page. If I open gmail with google chrome, the problem does not occur in any case. I tried removing completely firefox and re-installing and the problem persists. I will really appreciate any pointers. I'm inserting the output of 'firefox -g' (gdb on firefox).



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Reading symbols from /usr/lib/firefox/firefox...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[New Thread 0xb2db6b40 (LWP 2570)]
[Thread 0xb2db6b40 (LWP 2570) exited]

(process:2566): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
[New Thread 0xb2db6b40 (LWP 2572)]
[New Thread 0xb1529b40 (LWP 2573)]
[New Thread 0xb0bffb40 (LWP 2574)]
[New Thread 0xb03feb40 (LWP 2575)]
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[New Thread 0xad646b40 (LWP 2580)]
[New Thread 0xace45b40 (LWP 2582)]
[Thread 0xade47b40 (LWP 2579) exited]
[New Thread 0xade47b40 (LWP 2583)]
[New Thread 0xac7ffb40 (LWP 2584)]
[New Thread 0xa3bffb40 (LWP 2585)]
[New Thread 0xa33feb40 (LWP 2586)]
[New Thread 0xa2cffb40 (LWP 2587)]
[New Thread 0xa25ffb40 (LWP 2588)]
[New Thread 0xa1bffb40 (LWP 2589)]
[New Thread 0xa0dffb40 (LWP 2590)]
[New Thread 0x9f8ffb40 (LWP 2591)]
[Thread 0x9f8ffb40 (LWP 2591) exited]
[New Thread 0x9f8ffb40 (LWP 2592)]
[New Thread 0x9eaffb40 (LWP 2593)]
[New Thread 0xa134db40 (LWP 2594)]
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[New Thread 0x9d4ffb40 (LWP 2596)]
[New Thread 0x9ccfeb40 (LWP 2597)]
[New Thread 0x9b9ffb40 (LWP 2598)]
[New Thread 0x9b1feb40 (LWP 2599)]
[New Thread 0x9a9fdb40 (LWP 2600)]
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[New Thread 0x97dffb40 (LWP 2605)]
[New Thread 0x975feb40 (LWP 2606)]
[Thread 0xad646b40 (LWP 2580) exited]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb58ea88c in ?? () from /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.

Inferior 1 [process 2566] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n)


Thanks.

[pfeiffep]

Sadly I'm unable to confirm ...on my Dell running Ubuntu 14.04 FF launches web based gmail just fine

[danielsender]

I understand, in fact gmail runs just fine on another system with 14.04 that I have. I just upgraded firefox to v30 and the problem remains. I'm almost certain that is a problem with some library not directly belonging to the firefox package, but the output of gdb sometimes doesn't say anything and sometimes it says about libxul.so that is a library that comes with firefox.

[bapoumba]

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38085?
Arch Linux bug with the same output for segfault. The users located to problem with nvidia drivers. Would that apply to you ?

[danielsender]

That was one of the experiments I ran: disable the Nvidia 173 driver and use nouveau - unfortunately no difference, is still crashing.

Thanks

[bapoumba]

Maybe try disabling hangouts (bottom left) ? If you have enough time tafter login before it crashes.
Does it happen with a new user profile ? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles#w_starting-the-profile-manager

[brunolabs]

I also have the same problem. Gmail causes the segmentation fault error on Firefox.
I have already submitted the bug to Mozilla.

[Aditya_Kashi]

I have this problem as well. I'm using Xubuntu 14.04.

[Nitin_Reddy]

I had Firefox v33 crash all the time with GMail on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS after running one of the updates. GDB reported the error occurring in the libxul library.

I went to Edit > Preferences > Advanced, and unchecked everything under Browsing. No crashes ever since.

[bumparocky]

Same problem here.....Firefox 36.0 with all extensions disabled...still does it.....been going on for months now...

when system first comes up, I can launch gmail and get the initial listing of messages, if I go to reply to one, the new send pop up window appears and a few characters into the reply, firefox crashes and offer to send a report and restart. If I select restart, gmail will run without crashing again and seems to have reverted to the old basic html.....IE, a reply will not use the pop up but the older in-line type layout.

[pfeiffep]

I have no problems with Gmail using:
Ubuntu 14.04.2
Firefox 36.0.1