I can confirm the driver from Hardy Proposed fixes this problem. I reverted the workaround before updating the driver to make sure it would work for someone that didn't do the workaround. And it's working fine now, no more crashes.
:~$ apt-cache policy nvidia-glx-new nvidia-glx-new: Installed: 169.12+2.6.24.12-17.36 Candidate: 169.12+2.6.24.12-17.36 Version table: *** 169.12+2.6.24.12-17.36 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-proposed/restricted Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 169.12+2.6.24.12-16.34 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages -- [nvidia-new, hardy] certain websites in firefox causes X restart due to lack of wfb symlink https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212648 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs