28851 - crash when setting preferences (fonts)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24581

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[harm]

Overview Description: 
When I start browser and try to change font settings the browser crashes.

Steps to Reproduce: 
1) start browser (./mozilla)
2) edit->preferences->apearance->fonts
   note1: 'nsLayoutHistoryState::GetState, ERROR getting History state for the
key' is shown 30 times in x-term that started mozilla.
   note2: the apearance of the fonts menu is very slow (appox. 5 sec.)
3) select 'Use my default fonts, ignoring the fonts the page has chosen'
   note3: all of the 3 choises here cause bug
   note4: when opening the font dialog none of the 3 is selected
4) press OK  -> crash

Actual Results: 
browser stops.
Netscape quality feedback agent prompt pops up.
next time mozilla is started it has not remembered the choise of font ('Use my
default .. etc' )

Expected Results:
new font settings active and mozilla still running. 

Reproducibility: 
every single time I do steps 1-4.

Build Date & Platform Bug Found: 
Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686)
intel pentium III, 450 Mhz 128 Mb 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/m13/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-M13-fullcircle.tar.gz


Additional Builds and Platforms Tested On: 
none

Additional Information:
none

Comment 1

[Richard Zach]

This has been fixed in newer builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24581 ***

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

verif.