Comment 17 for bug 85531

I've encountered, and discovered a workaround for a very similar bug in the Ubuntu (8.04) Firefox (3.0.3) Modification (0.5) add-on. The Ubuntu Modification add-on is installed by default.

Several pages at www.newscientist.com would cause the browser to crash and close suddenly. I disabled my add-ons one at a time, and discovered that disabling the Ubuntu Mod seemed to cure the problem and the pages loaded and displayed normally. I don't see that any Firefox functionality has been lost, save that it no longer displays the Ubuntu page as its home page.