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Firefox keeps crashing on twitter

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shadowwraith
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At random times when i go to post a tweet on twitter or reply to someone else's message, firefox crashes

Every time the crash occurs this message appears in the error log startxfce4.log

?[11639] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/buildd/firefox-32.0.3+build1/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1532 [11639] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/buildd/firefox-32.0.3+build1/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1532

i've tried the following

Starting firefox in safe mode Creating a new test profile

none of the above have helped, and these crashes occurred after the upgrade to

32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 on 25th sept, i have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox

using sudo apt-get purge firefox && apt-get install firefox

this has not helped either.

At random times when i go to post a tweet on twitter or reply to someone else's message, firefox crashes Every time the crash occurs this message appears in the error log startxfce4.log [11639] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/buildd/firefox-32.0.3+build1/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1532 [11639] ###!!! ABORT: Aborting on channel error.: file /build/buildd/firefox-32.0.3+build1/ipc/glue/MessageChannel.cpp, line 1532 i've tried the following Starting firefox in safe mode Creating a new test profile none of the above have helped, and these crashes occurred after the upgrade to 32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 on 25th sept, i have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling firefox using sudo apt-get purge firefox && apt-get install firefox this has not helped either.

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guigs
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HI shadowwraith, If you have them, can you please provide the crash ids of the crashes for further investigation?

A new profile in the new installation was also tried as well? (sanity check on my part)


  1. Enter about:crashes in the Firefox address bar and press Enter. A Submitted Crash Reports list will appear, similar to the one shown below.
  2. Copy the 5 most recent Report IDs that start with bp- and then go back to your forum question and paste that into the "Post a Reply" box. (Please don't take a screenshot of your crashes, just copy and paste the ID's. The below image is just an example of what your Firefox screen should look like)

aboutcrashesFx29

Thank you.

shadowwraith
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here are the last 5 crash id's

bp-d81880a2-aa35-44b5-ad3b-1c2b12140929 30/09/14 00:46 bp-69ff5d0b-0431-4879-8d1b-715672140925 25/09/14 18:39 bp-49f5feb6-6321-45bb-8a97-1ad142140925 25/09/14 11:18 bp-d24a78e1-7e5f-4db4-9820-0ad4a2140925 25/09/14 11:17 bp-35bf268c-7721-4ca2-8b6f-7e1a12140914 14/09/14 23:25

shadowwraith
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the crash on the 14th Sept was before the 32.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 update

cor-el
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That looks like a problem with Hunspell dictionaries.

You can read through this bug report to see if that gives any clues of what you can try:

  • bug 983817 - [x86 Linux Ubuntu packages] crashes during spellchecker initialization (various textfield/textarea interactions/message compose) due to compiler bug using a 32-bit read for a read from an array of unsigned short
shadowwraith
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well there's certainly a lot of talk about it, but as of yet no solution or fix.

Also the fact i use the en_gb (provided by myspell_en-gb) dictionary and not en_us (hunspell_en-us), can't even remove hunspell due to dependencies.