diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f415669f..95e56b41 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ gnome-shell-extensions (3.26.2-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   [ Simon McVittie ]
   * d/patches: Re-export with gbp pq export
+  * d/p/places-menu-Don-t-force-dispose-of-uninitialized-proxies.patch:
+    Take patch from upstream to avoid frequent tracebacks from the Places
+    menu with gjs >= 1.50.2-3 (Closes: #888608)
 
  -- Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:44:11 -0500
 
diff --git a/debian/patches/places-menu-Don-t-force-dispose-of-uninitialized-proxies.patch b/debian/patches/places-menu-Don-t-force-dispose-of-uninitialized-proxies.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2fbc9551
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/places-menu-Don-t-force-dispose-of-uninitialized-proxies.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+From: =?utf-8?q?Florian_M=C3=BCllner?= <fmuellner@gnome.org>
+Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:57:49 +0100
+Subject: places-menu: Don't force dispose() of uninitialized proxies
+
+Trying to dispose a proxy object before it has been properly
+initialized triggers an "uncatchable exception", which gjs
+treats as a fatal error since commit c7bdcaab4. We only have
+anything to clean up once the proxy is initialized anyway, so
+don't force dispose() before that.
+
+Origin: upstream, 3.26.2, commit:61594afd687bf5883cc39fa79c5fbdb0d4cc9eda
+Bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell-extensions/issues/44
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888608
+---
+ extensions/places-menu/placeDisplay.js | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
+ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/extensions/places-menu/placeDisplay.js b/extensions/places-menu/placeDisplay.js
+index ba316bf..9647d63 100644
+--- a/extensions/places-menu/placeDisplay.js
++++ b/extensions/places-menu/placeDisplay.js
+@@ -136,17 +136,18 @@ const RootInfo = new Lang.Class({
+     _init: function() {
+         this.parent('devices', Gio.File.new_for_path('/'), _("Computer"));
+ 
+-        this._proxy = new Hostname1(Gio.DBus.system,
+-                                    'org.freedesktop.hostname1',
+-                                    '/org/freedesktop/hostname1',
+-                                    Lang.bind(this, function(obj, error) {
+-                                        if (error)
+-                                            return;
+-
+-                                        this._proxy.connect('g-properties-changed',
+-                                                            Lang.bind(this, this._propertiesChanged));
+-                                        this._propertiesChanged(obj);
+-                                    }));
++        new Hostname1(Gio.DBus.system,
++                      'org.freedesktop.hostname1',
++                      '/org/freedesktop/hostname1',
++                      Lang.bind(this, function(obj, error) {
++                          if (error)
++                              return;
++
++                          this._proxy = obj;
++                          this._proxy.connect('g-properties-changed',
++                                              Lang.bind(this, this._propertiesChanged));
++                          this._propertiesChanged(obj);
++                      }));
+     },
+ 
+     getIcon: function() {
+@@ -163,7 +164,10 @@ const RootInfo = new Lang.Class({
+     },
+ 
+     destroy: function() {
+-        this._proxy.run_dispose();
++        if (this._proxy) {
++            this._proxy.run_dispose();
++            this._proxy = null;
++        }
+         this.parent();
+     }
+ });
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
index 6410b5c4..3e8344b1 100644
--- a/debian/patches/series
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+places-menu-Don-t-force-dispose-of-uninitialized-proxies.patch
 dont-require-nautilus-classic.patch
 gnome-session-classic-wrapper-script.patch