Firefox crash in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

Several days ago i updated my Ubuntu «Gusty Gibon» installation. And after that Firefox keeps crashing randomly, saying ``Floating point exception`` in console.

The reason of this issue seems changes in libcairo2 made by security update. Latest version of this library is libcairo2_1.4.10-1ubuntu4.1. Downgrading it to libcairo2_1.4.10-1ubuntu4 fixes the problem.

The bug is reported already and I hope libcairo2 will be fixed soon. But untill that moment sudo apt-get install libcairo2=1.4.10-1ubuntu4 can help.

UPD: Issue is fixed in 1.4.10-1ubuntu4.2: 

libcairo (1.4.10-1ubuntu4.2) gutsy-security; urgency=low

  * Fix debian/patches/91_malloc-overflow-fixes.dpatch to avoid
    divide-by-zero; patch from upstream fixes (LP: #173861):
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