Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89088
Crashes Mozilla to look at this page
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:07 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: When I visit this page, Mozilla dies. This must have something to do with my browser configuration though because it doesn't happen for a user with an empty .mozilla directory. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.1-26 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Put URL: http://www.kayeyem.net/index2.php in URL bar 2.hit return 3.browser crashes Actual Results: Browser crashes Expected Results: Page should display Additional info: Something about my .mozilla directory is causing this, it doesn't happen for a user with an empty .mozilla directory. Possibly this page does something strange inside a .mozilla with a fresh configuration, but doesn't cause it to crash.
Works here, even with my profile in place. Do you have any .fon files in your font path? Or any font files that aren't world-readable? Might be an upstream moz bug you're seeing.
I believe that this is caused by the css font specification. For instance: div.ljtalklink { font:10px/20px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align:right; } If you have the verdana font, this might crash Mozilla. I get the same thing when I try to visit http://www.mythtv.org/. There, CSS refers to the font "12px MS Sans Serif", and Mozilla crashes immediately. Might this be a bug in fontconfig? I don't know what the results of its lookup are, but it's definitely not returning the font requested. "xterm -fa '12px MS Sans Serif'" won't crash on my box, but it'll display the same font as if I use any nonsense font name. Mozilla crashes if I try to load '12px MS Sans Serif' from CSS, but not if I use a nonsense name.
This has been filed upstream as well. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180309
The concensus on the upstream bug is that this is a fontconfig issue. I've also applied the very small patch found here: http://nexp.cs.pdx.edu/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48 to fontconfig, and it resolves both crashes that I'd seen with mozilla: * .fon files * font descriptions of this format: 10px/20px verdana