Firefox/Thunderbird crash if not launched from terminal

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. put export GTK_MENUBAR_NO_MAC="thunderbird-bin thunderbird firefox" into
~/.bashrc
2. launch firefox from gnome-menu or cairo-dock

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Firefox and thunderbird crash immediately after launch. Running them from
terminal (gnome-terminal) does work.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Gentoo, gnome-globalmenu-0.7.6:

emerge gnome-globalmenu -pv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] gnome-extra/gnome-globalmenu-0.7.6  0 kB [1]

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
 [0] /usr/portage
 [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/gnome2-globalmenu

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dancetr...@gmail.com on 20 Aug 2009 at 9:55

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Hmm it suddenly seems to be working now.. :S :)

Original comment by dancetr...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2009 at 10:22

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
- opening firefox, songbird, thunderbird from any method BESIDES terminal. I 
don't 
have experience opening from Terminal.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Programs begin processing to launch, then crash/fail to start before rendering 
a 
window.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Ubuntu Karmic, 0.7.8

Original comment by RedMosqu...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2009 at 7:54

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That's the 64bit version.

Original comment by RedMosqu...@gmail.com on 9 Dec 2009 at 7:55

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Started all three apps from Terminal - did not fix problem. All three failed to 
start.

Original comment by RedMosqu...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2009 at 9:34

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Started all three apps from Terminal - did not fix problem. All three failed to 
start - and 
no error messages either.

Original comment by RedMosqu...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2009 at 9:34

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Can you start any of the crashing app with gdb and post the stack backtrace 
here?

Original comment by rainwood...@gmail.com on 14 Dec 2009 at 10:11

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I'm sorry, I should have checked back on this thread earlier. But oddly enough, 
as of 
updates on the evening of 12/30/2009, all three mozilla products launch 
correctly and 
the applet seems to function correctly after one restart.

I don't know if this change is a product of Mozilla's updates or an Applet 
update.

Original comment by michaelm...@gmail.com on 31 Dec 2009 at 2:53