264797 - http://www.tobiasjung.net/profont/ crashes Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Frank Schmitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When I visit http://www.tobiasjung.net/profont/ and move the mouse over the link
"read Profont for Windows, Mac, Linux" firefox crashes. I tried it under a new
profile and was able to reproduce it there as well. I use an unpatched Firefox
1.0PR from mozilla.org

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.tobiasjung.net/profont/
2. Move the mouse over the link saying "read Profont for Windows, Mac, Linux"
3. See how Firefox crashes

Actual Results:  
It crashed

Expected Results:  
It shouldn't crash

/opt/firefox/run-mozilla.sh: line 451:  3373 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

Comment 1

[willy iven]

works fine for me

windows XP SP2

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041017
Firefox/0.10.1 (MOOX M3)

Comment 2

[Frank Schmitt]

I can't confirme it on an other machine of mine running also firefox 0.10PR and
Fedora Core 2. The configuration of the two machines is almost identical. Weird.

Comment 3

[Frank Schmitt]

Ok, I have found the cause for the bug: The page specifies profont as the
default font, however the version of profont I had installed was broken. The
broken font seems to be the reason Firefox crashed.

After I removed it, everything works correctly. I guess the bug should be closed
but I leave this to the developers, perhaps it's a bug that Firefox crashes when
trying to use malformed font files.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

as per last comment
WFM