Firefox 1.5_5.1 now crashed system on startup

[Rob Lytle]

On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:50:04 +0500
FreeBSD Maillists <freebsd at softodrom.ru> wrote:

> > I am using FreeBSD 6.0 release and Firefox 1.5_5.1.  With my old kernel
> > which did not have SMP and hyperthreading enabled, it would just run
> > the cpu up to 100% upon startup.  Now with SMP and hyperthreading
> > enabled it locks up the computer and I have to give the computer a hard
> > power down.  The cpu is a P4.
> 
> > Any hints as to what might be going on are appreciated.
> 
> It's a new bug (with workable exploit) in Firefox 1.5.
> Delete file history.dat from you Firefox 1.5 installation.
> 
> http://www.softodrom.ru/win/blogs/b717.shtml   (In Russian)
> http://www.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/242789.php (In English)
> 
> -- 
> С уважением,
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> 
I went and tried that, but I still ended up crashing my computer.  I
wonder if I should delete the whole ~/.mozilla/firefox directory?
Perhaps it is corrupted.

Rob.

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