diff --git a/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter/nsExceptionHandler.cpp b/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter/nsExceptionHandler.cpp
index a70f7023088..c7aeecf7993 100755
--- a/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter/nsExceptionHandler.cpp
+++ b/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter/nsExceptionHandler.cpp
@@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ bool MinidumpCallback(const XP_CHAR* dump_path,
   if (pid == -1)
     return false;
   else if (pid == 0) {
+    // need to clobber this, as libcurl might load NSS,
+    // and we want it to load the system NSS.
+    unsetenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH");
     (void) execl(crashReporterPath,
                  crashReporterPath, minidumpPath, (char*)0);
     _exit(1);