Following up on a suggestion from Alex in question 174159, I checked this on a laptop with ATi graphics (fglrx) and a VirtualBox VM as well as workstations with NVIDIA graphics (nvidia-current) and the problem only occurs on the NVIDIA machines. I have not yet tested with nv.
Several people have suggested upgrading to Firefox 7 from ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable and that does seem to work around the problem but for our district-wide deployment we prefer to use fully supported Ubuntu packages. Other folks who are affected, can you comment on the possible NVIDIA connection? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872714 Title: After playing several clips in Flash 11, Firefox wouldn't quit cleanly. Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I played several clips in Youtube, using Flash 11... closed the tabs individually, then closed Firefox by means of File/Quit. I expected this to shut Firefox dowqn completely. It didn't, but left the firefox-bin process in a "futex-no".. something state. Please fix. Firefox version is 3.6.23. Addons are Ad-blocker and noscript. Running Ubuntu 10.04.3LTS, all updates. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: firefox 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-34.77-generic 2.6.32.44+drm33.19 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-34-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Oct 12 09:04:07 2011 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 firefox-branding 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox --- Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 firefox-branding 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.4) NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia Package: firefox 3.6.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-34.77-generic 2.6.32.44+drm33.19 Tags: lucid ubuntu-une Uname: Linux 2.6.32-34-generic i686 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/872714/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
