Bug 186203 - Firefox crashes with MS TTF fonts (Verdana, Times New Roman etc.)
Summary: Firefox crashes with MS TTF fonts (Verdana, Times New Roman etc.)
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-22 08:18 UTC by Michal Piotrowski
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-29 18:54:33 UTC
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Description Michal Piotrowski 2006-03-22 08:18:24 UTC 
Description of problem:
After installing MS TTF fonts (Times New Roman, Courier, Arial, Verdana) Firefox
crashes when entering on many pages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.5.0.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy earlier mentioned fonts to /usr/share/fonts/local
2. Run fc-cache /usr/share/fonts/
3. Start firefox and enter page: http://fedoranews.org
  
Actual results:
Firefox crashes

Expected results:
Firefox properly renders page

Additional info:
KDE applications don't have problems with these fonts. Firefox in FC4 didn't
have problems either.
Comment 1 Michal Piotrowski 2006-03-29 18:54:33 UTC 
I tried to more test this problem, but it don't occur now (maybe after some of
the last updates?).
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