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Updated Firefox 4.0 today (Gecko/20101014 Firefox/4.0b8pre), and it's crashing regularly (Windows 7 & Linux). I selectively disabled addons, and when I disabled NoScript 2.0.3.4rc2, the crashing seems to have stopped.

I know that's not much info to go by--I'm rather noobish. I'll be glad to provide more details if you can tell me where to retrieve them!

Does it happen on a specific web site or after a specific action?
Can I see your latest about:crashes entries?

http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/i ... 0082101014

To test it, I was clicking on the "Oprah Magazine Features Runamocs" link on this page: http://www.facebook.com/SoftStarShoes It was consistently crashing with that link...

Noscript 2.0.3.4rc2 crashes latest trunk Gecko/20101014 Firefox/4.0b8pre , it's really bad you should consider to get any ver until is fixed to be blacklisted. It's today topcrash after https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580128 landed

the crashstack signature is http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/i ... fa02101014

also see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604308 & https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544610

I can't reproduce it here on Windows, but I bet it's due to the recently introduced compartments and it's very likely https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604368

I've got the feeling you can work around by temporarily setting the noscript.surrogate.enabled about:config preference to false.

Crashes for me when clicking links at www.wunderground.com
Tried with surrogate.enabled set false but no difference, still crashing.

Giorgio Maone wrote:I can't reproduce it here on Windows, but I bet it's due to the recently introduced compartments and it's very likely https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604368

I've got the feeling you can work around by temporarily setting the noscript.surrogate.enabled about:config preference to false.

Giorgio,

Several people are reporting that NoScript is the culprit - see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... 9&start=60

I was also seeing frequent crashes until I disabled NS. I've just tried your 'surrogate' tip and that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks.

EDIT: I take that back. Minefield just crashed again with NS enabled. Here's a crash report if it helps: http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/i ... 4bf2101014

Confirmed.

Giorgio and Wladimir are well aware of this.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604368

Please set noscript.toStaticHTML to false as well.

One other symptom I see of the latest Minefield nightly 20101014 with 2.0.3.3 is that the informational bubbles that appear during a "critical" event (like saving a password, the info message that NoScript.net was prevented from installing a new version of NoScript unless authorized, etc.) don't show the text, but the confirmation button in the bubble does appear properly.

I get crashes every attempted start with NoScript enabled as well, but I don't have either "noscript.toStaticHTML" or "noscript.surrogate.enabled" entry in my about config. Should they be manually added?

BarryM wrote:One other symptom I see of the latest Minefield nightly 20101014 with 2.0.3.3 is that the informational bubbles that appear during a "critical" event (like saving a password, the info message that NoScript.net was prevented from installing a new version of NoScript unless authorized, etc.) don't show the text, but the confirmation button in the bubble does appear properly.

This has nothing to do with NoScript. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604464 for this.

David wrote:I get crashes every attempted start with NoScript enabled as well, but I don't have either "noscript.toStaticHTML" or "noscript.surrogate.enabled" entry in my about config. Should they be manually added?

You should have them. If you don't, it means your profile is severely borked or NoScript has never been installed there.

Giorgio Maone wrote:Please set noscript.toStaticHTML to false as well.

Sorry. Still getting crashes with that and the surrogate setting you recommend.

DavidCG wrote:

Giorgio Maone wrote:Please set noscript.toStaticHTML to false as well.

Sorry. Still getting crashes with that and the surrogate setting you recommend.

Oh well, either disable NoScript or install a previous Minefield trunk build / Firefox beta.
Strangely enough, I couldn't reproduce yet on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101014 Firefox/4.0b8pre ID:20101014041748