Comment 1 for bug 265055

Hello again -- I reported the bug to the Pidgin developers. Their Trac ticket on it can be found at http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7013. They've accepted and fixed it (the diff is at http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/diff/254e5a24031a74103097db812ae3e723d696c11d/with/3cbc74478c8df61d53804d0363dc936a3e0adeb7).

I'm not sure how many people this bug affects that are using Hardy backports, but if SSL certs make Pidgin as unstable for everyone as it was for me, I'd suggest removing the package until the fixed version can be backported. I'd imagine this probably does affect most users since everything seems to use SSL and libnss except AIM and Yahoo. IRC and Jabber both cause Pidgin to crash.