Description of problem: $ firefox http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/kernel_history/developer_graph-2.6.18.png The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 3331 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: on x86_64 and i386
$ rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64 and $ rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.i386
$ file developer_graph-2.6.18.png developer_graph-2.6.18.png: PNG image data, 48330 x 2159, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
Can fully reproduce with the same image to crash firefox.
The exact same crash happens in epiphany too, so it's likely some xulrunner thing.
We found that this bug has been already registered in the upstream database (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436037) and believe that it is more appropriate to let it be resolved upstream. Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Thank you for the bug report.
*** Bug 447292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 447292 is related, but not duplicate.
It might be also related with bug 212135
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I can reproduce the BadAlloc bug on Fedora 10 with firefox-3.0.12-1.fc10.x86_64, but on a different website. firefox -safe-mode --sync (immediate crash after visiting http://www.hueppe.de) The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 50920 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
From the point of view of anyone interested in promoting Linux desktops as an alternative to Windows, the priority of this issue is through the roof. If I understand correctly we are waiting for the Mozilla Firefox community to fix the issue, now in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424333 This may not be such a good idea because that community does not have as much motivation as us to support Linux desktops. I am maintaining a web site for a large multi-national business (millions of page impressions per week and several 100s of thousands of active registered users. When I open the online site in Firefox on fc11, it crashes due to a wide image and this issue (yes, all open web apps etc. typically in many tabs/windows are gone). So I must use a different OS. Our customer sees this as a (relatively) low priority issue because less than 1% of hits are from Linux desktops (and some other Linux platforms are unaffected). However, Firefox is a very popular browser with the users, which demonstrates why the referenced bug (424333) is not nearly as important for the Mozilla Firefox developers as this one should be for us (you and me). I can confirm that the issue is still present in fc11 as per last comment in referenced ticket (424333), apparently 2 or 3 years at least after first reports of the issue. BTW If I find time I will use bugzilla.mozilla.org to make a case that Firefox should be less sensitive to image rendering issues. E.g. handle this problem by ignoring the images instead of crashing.
The upstream bug contains a fix for this issue. I'm not sure it's caused by firefox or by cairo we we should investigate it and perhaps move it to cairo instead of firefox itself.
It's already fixed with F12/firefox-3.5.6.