Ubuntu
firefox package

Harddisk corruption after opening large image in firefox

Bug #150366 reported by Wouter Stomp
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

I wanted to view the full version of the image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wtc-photo.jpg (very large) and after loading about 3/4th of it, my computer stalled and my harddisk started to make a lot of noise. It also became unresponsive, and I tried several keycombination like ctrl-alt-bckspace, ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-f1 but none worked. I then rebooted the computer and since then the partition ubuntu is on is inaccessible. I can boot from it from grub, but then the computer stalls almost directly after usplash is shown. I can't mount the partition from another ubuntu instance. Fsck on it didn't work.

Revision history for this message
John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Sorry but Firefox-2 is getting near EOS and they wont be fixing anything but major issues security issues mainly. Please try to reproduce this with Firefox-3.0 if you can reproduce this bug please click on Help > Report a problem and file the bug that way.

Changed in firefox:
status: New → Won't Fix
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