240461 - firefox close automatically/unexpectedly when loading foreign language site

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Lau Sian Lerk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040211 Firefox/0.8

when i tries to enter any chinese language site, my firefox would just close
unexpectedly. it should load at least with unidentified character or soemthing,
but it just refuse to open any site with foreign character.

however, it only works by user root to view this site using firefox. other user
would have this same problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. login as normal user (non-root)
2. open firefox
3. open url (that contains chinese character)
4. firefox close (unexpectedly)

** take note, my bookmark refuse to display any chinese character too. it just
shows empty. however, same entry for bookmark by user root, it display properly
the chinese character

Actual Results:  
firefox close unexpectedly

Expected Results:  
1. load the page
2. not closing unexpectedly by itself

Comment 1

[Götz Lohmann]

1.) check if you now use an Xft enabled version
2.) check if all truetype fonst are readable by the user

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

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