If, instead of running the 'iceweasel' script, the 'firefox-bin' executable is invoked directly, as documented in the mozilla knowledge base (see entry for '-new-tab' at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments), the problem does not occur. Note that with both methods the page is opened in a new tab, the only issue is the segfaults and core dumps generated. A message is written to the kernel log:
firefox-bin[14435]: segfault at b781f1b5 ip b7d53d91 sp bfdb3d34 error 4 in libc-2.9.so[b7d24000+158000] There are a couple of issues here: 1. The '-new-tab' option is not documented in the command line help for iceweasel or firefox-bin. 2. The default command for 'open link in new tab' for iceweasel is 'iceweasel -new-tab "%s"', so if conditions exists where invoking the script instead of the executable directly could cause a segfault and perhaps fail to open the new tab, the user is left wondering why. 3. 'update-manager' just started failing to open clickable bug report links in 'iceweasel' because of this problem. 'update-manager' uses 'gnome-open' to open the clickable URL, and I assume 'gnome-open' interrogates the preferred browser settings to get the command 'iceweasel -new-tab "%s"'. I can see the command was issued via 'lastcomm', but the bug report page is never displayed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org