It seems that you're confusing M-x find-file and M-x load-file, the former opens a file into Emacs and the latter loads a Lisp library file...
As to why Emacs crashes when you use the menu or toolbar, I don't know -- and the version you're using is quite old. Try upgrading to a newer snapshot. -- crashes on file load https://launchpad.net/bugs/76109 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
