Mysterious Thunderbird crashes – finally solved

GPGee (website down during time of writing) causes Thunderbird to crash on opening mails containing http:// links after having opened a mail containing a file:// link before. This sentence alone should make it clear to everyone how much trouble this issue caused me, and how hard it was to track down… Well – at least I learned a thing or two about debugging (Mozilla applications) on Windows.

See my bug report in Mozilla’s bug tracker if you want to read the whole story. You can even watch a screen video of the crash there 😉

NX gives you “session test failed” and “Failure negotiating the session in stage ‘7’”?

… then check your iptables settings on the server. Perhaps you made the same mistake as I did: Restricting local traffic (on the ‘lo’ interface).

Add the following rules to your iptables ruleset, and make sure it’s at the beginning (before the restrictions):

iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT