Running firefox from the console to see any error messages showed the messages in the attachment:
Last three lines were: ** Message: Viewer state: STOPPED ** Message: totem_embedded_set_error: 'An error occurred', 'The playback of this movie requires a MMSH protocol source plugin which is not installed.' ** Message: totemGMPPlugin dtor [0x8117668] Segmentation fault (core dumped) So seems to be a missing plugin (which one) .. Shouldn't core though ! ** Attachment added: "messages from totem-plugin seg fault" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6463995/totem-plugin-core-message -- [apport] totem-plugin-viewer crashed with SIGSEGV in _start() https://launchpad.net/bugs/85976 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs