Comment 9 for bug 282287

I'm affected by this on a fresh install of 64-bit ubuntu.

From extensive Googling, I believe that the problem is related to adding WINS into your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. I found that last night and removed the entry. I did not have another FF crash since, but have not tried the Link of Death provided above, or used it for a long period to be sure that is the cause.

There seem to be a few bugs raised for this issue. For me (and probably for many others), the main problem was finding what was actually happening, because FF just exits and says "Aborted." in the console. Just searching for "linux firefox aborted" doesn't yield much of a response.

I will be doing more testing when I get home from work -- am stuck on a legacy OS at the moment.

Joe