Firefox browser closes immediately upon loading a youtube page containing a video. No error message is given unless started from a terminal. It states, "Illegal instruction (core dumped)". The youtube.com homepage loads without any problem.

Bug #454944 reported by JiggyMan
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firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Ubuntu release: Ubuntu karmic (development branch) 9.10
Package: Firefox 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu4

When attempting to load a page containing flash video (youtube.com), Firefox closes immediately. When running Firefox from the desktop, no error message is given. When running Firefox from a terminal, the terminal responds with "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 18 15:45:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

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