People are reporting this bug like crazy on launchpad as well as on bugzilla.mozilla.org. Something needs to be done. A lot of people are not going to have the intelligence to come and find this bug and see what the possible workaround are -- they'll just stop using Ubuntu because they can't browse the Internet.
There are two easy workarounds that've been mentioned in this bug. 1. Make the default color depth to be 24. 2. Set XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS to 1 in the firefox startup script. I'm not totally sure what either one of those things does, but I think someone with that knowledge needs to evaluate them and make a patch and get it into the firefox package ASAP. On a sidenote, is this crash mentioned anywhere in user-facing documentation? It's pretty easy to find a solution to this by searching for "firefox crash" on the forums, but I'm afraid not everyone will be able to find this. -- Flash plugin problem with ARGB visuals causes crash https://launchpad.net/bugs/14911 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
