http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29524
Bug #: 29524 Summary: Firefox 9.0.1 crashes immediately Product: Wine Version: 1.3.28 Platform: x86 OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: wu.m@arcor.de Classification: Unclassified
The windows program that I run under Wine creates HTML files locally and invokes Firefox (to be exact, Firefox for Windows, installed under Wine) to display them. This used to work well with Firefox 8.0. When Firefox upgrades itself to 9.0.1 (which it does for me since January 2012), I get a message
The program firefox.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close...
and the Firefox window is not opened. The terminal shows
wine: Unhandled illegal instruction at address 0x1a4000b (thread 0025), starting debugger...
I can then restore Firefox from a backup, and all is well for awhile.
I encountered the problem with Wine 1.2; I am now running Wine 1.3 and the problem still exists.