firefox dies when anything typed in search or test fields

[Tim Robbins]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:18:59AM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:

> I'm not getting any core dump or other indication of an error, but when
> I type a single character into the search text widget or if I go to
> google.com and type a character in the search for that then firefox will
> crash.

This has been frustrating me a lot lately. It seems to be a known problem
with Firefox 0.8 on amd64 (not specific to FreeBSD):
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=146823&highlight=firefox+amd64
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244577 (???)

The Gentoo forum posts suggest that turning off "Saved Form Information"
and "Saved Passwords" (in Privacy options) and "Use Find As You Type"
(in Advanced / Accessibility options) may help, but it didn't improve
anything for me. I'm going to try plain Mozilla instead.


Tim