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Description of problem: mozilla crashes without any indication at some sites (e.g. http://news.com.com or http://www.zdnet.com). This happens only with the Xft enabled builds of mozilla. I have tried the non-Xft builds, and they are working fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.2.1-3 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. startup mozilla 2. go to http://news.com.com 3. mozilla crashes Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I searched in the mozilla bugzilla for this bug, and it seems to be http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180309 mozilla crashes if a .fon fontfile is in some font directory. I removed the .fon files, rebuilt the font list, and now mozilla does not crash anymore consistently at these sites. I don't know if there is a "correct" fix for it yet.
One Xft bug in XFree86 was fixed a few days ago that fixed Bug #83354 which was a Xft related crash in Mozilla. You had mentioned that you found a potential fix for your problem and/or perhaps your problem was fixed by the recent Xft patch. This issue may be resolved.
Yeah, that's the same bug. Closing since it's filed upstream.