Comment 41 for bug 477513

(Please note that I guessed at the component, as suggested)

I do not fully understand the stack trace in the URL, however, the Firefox developers are convinced that UIM is responsible for causing Firefox to routinely crash on my system.

I got to this point because Firefox would crash within minutes every time I ran it. There was no predictor of exactly when and why it would crash, but it would definitely crash if given enough time, which wasn't very long.

So I first reported it to the Ubuntu developers, who suggested that I take it to the Firefox developers. They asked me to run some stack trace bug reports, like the one linked to, and they were absolutely convinced that the stack traces showed clearly that UIM caused the crash. (Specifically im-uim.so)

I had my doubts, but I have tried temporarily removing UIM from my system, and so far Firefox is now running okay again.

Please note that when Firefox crashes, it is not when I actually enter any text, or interact with UIM in any way that I know of. It seems that the mere presence of UIM on my system causes Firefox to be unstable.

I hope this bug can get resolved, because I much prefer to use UIM for inputting Japanese than other systems on Ubuntu.

Thank you, and I hope to hear from you soon.