The symptoms went away after reversing installation of gnash/swfdec, that is:
Completely removed the following packages: gnash gnash-common libswfdec-0.8-0 swfdec-gnome swfdec-mozilla -- firefox crashes epically on start always after install of gnash etc https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330309 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
