[Bug 308297] [NEW] firefox crashes randomly and silently

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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

firefox crashes randomly, and completely silently (i.e., one moment it's
there, then it's just gone, no error messages, or anything)

this happens infrequently enough (maybe once a week), that it's not that
great of a problem, but a problem it is. due to its relatively low
frequency, i also have not been able to figure out exactly what actions
cause this. it /seems/ that it may be when i place my cursor and/or
start typing in the url bar.

I wanted to try generating a backtrace in gdb, but i am not sure if these instructions that i found are current for intrepid:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MozillaTeam/Bugs#head-c576e78d92cb3c959c271158b6ace98be835de83

the page only speaks about hardy, and when i looked in the repos for any
firefox dbg packages, i didn't find any.

i would appreciate some current info on how to generate the gdb
backtrace, so that i can attach it to this bug report.

this is on intrepid, with firefox from the repos.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic i686

** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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firefox crashes randomly and silently
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