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[Tyler Johnson <tsjswimmer@xxxxxxx>]

FWIW, Abrowser 43 does not seem to have this issue. I guess this bug has
been fixed?

There is another possibly-related bug: Abrowser crashes (segfault) when
attempting to play HTML 5 MP4 videos. As a workaround, one can enter
about:config, set "media.fragmented-mp4.gmp.enabled" to false, and set
"media.fragmented-mp4.ffmpeg.enabled" to true. You'll probably have to
install ffmpeg to play HTML 5 MP4 videos.

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Title:
  Abrowser 39 crashes (segmentation fault).

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is the same bug that has appeared on the Trisquel GNU/Linux forums:
  https://trisquel.info/en/forum/abrowser-behaves-strangely-after-system-update

  I've installed (from the legimet/abrowser-kde ppa) and tested Abrowser
  on three machines. On one of them, running Ubuntu 14.04 x64,
  everything is fine. On the other two, both running 14.04 x32, there is
  an almost instant segmentation fault. Interestingly, the segmentation
  fault is NOT instant if I load a non-default profile using something
  like:

  mkdir ~/Desktop/FF-Temp ; abroswer --profile ~/Desktop/FF-Temp

  When I load new profiles, I can still trigger the bug by visiting
  certain websites (DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Google). So, perhaps visiting
  pages that execute certain HTML elements, javascript, etc. is what is
  setting this bug off.

  PS: for whatever it may be worth, after finding, downloading, and
  installing a .deb package from the FSF mirror of the Trisquel repos,
  I can confirm that this bug doesn't affect version 38, just 39.

  Also: to my knowledge, the bug doesn't affect Firefox (although I've
  removed Firefox from my system in favor of abrowser, so I can't say
  for sure). For this reason, I've tried to add abrowser to the list of
  packages, but the website has insisted on changing it to Firefox:

  "'abrowser' is a binary package. This bug has been assigned to its
  source package 'firefox' instead."

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