This article helps affected users in reporting of Firefox and Thunderbird bugs and ease package maintainers fixing them.
Figuring out whose fault is it
Some crashes and problems come from installed addons or 3rd party plugins. To determine if that's the case run Mozilla products with -safe-mode
parameter:
firefox -safe-mode
or
thunderbird -safe-mode
Then Disable all add-ons
needs to be checked and Make Changes and Restart
pressed.
If problem still persist it isn't most likely related to addons or plugins and you can proceed to Bugs in gecko. Otherwise go to Reporting addons and plugins issues. . In that case proceed to Plugins and Addons problems section.
Reporting addons and plugins issues
Then set your location to about:plugins page, save it and attach to bug report. This page contains information about all installed plugins and it may help us in resolving your issue. Attach also output of following commands:
rpm -q firefox xulrunner flash-plugin gnash google-talkplugin nspluginwrapper ls /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
You may also run Firefox or Thunderbird by strace. This help us to track which dynamic libraries are loaded during startup. Strace usage:
strace firefox &>strace_output
or in case of Thunderbird:
strace thunderbird &> strace_output
and don't forget to attach created strace_output file to bug report.