Bug 200690

Summary:	hard crash on news.google.com and trying to read emails in gamail.google.com
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Gautam Rupak <grupak>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	ispiked
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Gautam Rupak 2006-07-31 00:18:53 UTC

Description of problem:
Firefox crashes on visiting news.google.com.  Similar problem on
gamail.google.com. On gmail, one can login but trying to read email, firefox
crashes.  The problem is with the redhat build which I upgraded very recently.
The official build from mozilla.com doesn't have this problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit news.google.com
2.Or try reading email in gamail.google.com
3.
  
Actual results: Hard crash


Expected results: Should open the links


Additional info: The official build from mozilla.org doesn't have this problem

Comment 1 Adam Guthrie 2006-08-01 21:21:49 UTC

After some investigation I found out that this is a bug in libfreetype. You
should be able to grab one of the RPMs mentioned in this advisory to fix the
problem: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0613.html.

Comment 2 Warren Togami 2007-01-10 20:40:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 200033 ***