Firefox 1.5_5.1 now crashed system on startup

[FreeBSD Maillists]

>> > I am using FreeBSD 6.0 release and Firefox 1.5_5.1.  With my old kernel
>> > which did not have SMP and hyperthreading enabled, it would just run
>> > the cpu up to 100% upon startup.  Now with SMP and hyperthreading
>> > enabled it locks up the computer and I have to give the computer a hard
>> > power down.  The cpu is a P4.
>> 
>> > Any hints as to what might be going on are appreciated.
>> 
>> It's a new bug (with workable exploit) in Firefox 1.5.
>> Delete file history.dat from you Firefox 1.5 installation.
>> 
>> http://www.softodrom.ru/win/blogs/b717.shtml   (In Russian)
>> http://www.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/242789.php (In English)

> I went and tried that, but I still ended up crashing my computer.  I
> wonder if I should delete the whole ~/.mozilla/firefox directory?
> Perhaps it is corrupted.

Quote from http://www.securitylab.ru/poc/extra/242789.php
>The next time that firefox is
>opened, it will instantly crash due to a buffer overflow -- this will
>happen everytime until you manually delete the history.dat file -- which
>most users won't figure out.

Maybe problem in something other...

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