356262 - Firefox crashes when window size is increased beyond 2729px horizontally.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

I have a linux system running with dual headed display. My total screen width is 2880 pixel.

Problem: I can not resize the browser window to span both screens completely as firefox crashes.

I checked the size with "xwininfo". It seems, the bug is triggered if I resize the window to be larger than 2729 pixel (width, this is).



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Increase browser window to be wider than 2729 pixel.
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When Firefox crashes, it prints the following message:

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 26719 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Comment 1

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

This also happens when running a nightly build and FF2.0RC2:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061010 Minefield/3.0a1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061003 Firefox/2.0

I ran my tests using a clean, new profile.

Comment 2

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: 2800px wide screenshot

No 1.5.0.7 crash for me with virtual 2800x1050 desktop on SUSE 10.0/KDE 3.4.x and Matrox single head G400.

Comment 3

[Daniel Kabs, reporting bugs since 2002]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061208 Firefox/2.0.0.1

After upgrading to Debian Etch this bug is gone.

My new Debian system sports an X.org xserver whereas the older Sarge release was based on XFree86.org. Maybe it was only a problem with the xserver or window manager.