App Crashing Bug? [WAS: Thunderbird Bug?]

Question

I saw this bug on the default Thunderbird in the latest Ubuntu last week. I am not 100% sure if I saw it in the default Thunderbird in Debian Stable (5.0) which I later used. I am now using Thunderbird version 2.0.0.21 (20090319) on Arch and I just found the same bug.
The problem is I can't always reproduce it. But this seems to work now to reproduce:
0. Copy this line into your buffer with Ctrl-C:
$city = $_REQUEST['city'];
1. Close Thunderbirdt and all open message windows
2. Launch Thunderbird
3. Open a new message
4. Click the mouse in the Body section
5. Press Ctrl-V
On my system, this crashes Thunderbird.
Also copy/pasting this text has crashed it:
[email protected]
but not every time.
Now that I played with it, the first text doesn't always crash it either. In short, however, copying and pasting PHP code has crashed Thunderbird for me numerous times.
Before I post this to the appropriate place, can someone at least confirm that they also see this issue?
Last edited by CaptainKirk (2009-06-13 19:07:59)

Answer 1

Hmmm. Very interesting. I presently have no addons on my Thunderbird. In Ubuntu I did. The truth is that once in Ubuntu even Firefox crashed--I had it open to a page with a TinyMCE (rich text) textarea and I copied and pasted something in there and Firefox crashed. When I say "crash" I mean the app just dies and disappears.
In my present Arch there is another problem--if I right click on my "keyboard layouts" Xfce panel addon item and click on "About" then that addon crashes and disappears.
Also when I install an app on Wine IIRC it messes up my "other" menu in the Xfce main menu. I forget if it's that the new app doesn't appear or that all the old apps that were there don't appear--whatever it is, when I reboot it works again and all apps are there.
I wonder if these quirks are due to something specific on my hardware/install. Not sure what else it could be.