363470 - Loading above page crashes browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[cypherpunks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Loading http://framboise78.free.fr/Paris.htm crashes my browser with the following error: 
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 25884 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.)

It happens in normal mode, and in safe mode. System has huge amounts of resources (>1GB RAM, mostly free. Other than Firefox, only a few xterms, emacs, and one <20MB application were running). ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 graphics card, with 128MB RAM, and proprietary ATI driver. 

There is a number of similar bugs in the bug database, some of which date back to older Firefox versions. I do not know if they are the same bug or not. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://framboise78.free.fr/Paris.htm
Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes, with: 
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 12722 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.)


Expected Results:  
Pretty web page. 

System is Debian GNU/Linux 3.1. Firefox is official build from Mozilla.org. System is a high-end machine, doing almost nothing at the time, so this was not a simple resource shortage. 

Given that Firefox crashes, it is an important bug, since many crashes can be exploited as e.g. buffer overflows.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 on Debian Etch+~Lenny
$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1036644     992252      44392          0      22088     401960
-/+ buffers/cache:     568204     468440
Swap:      1566296     394848    1171448

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

No response → resolving WORKSFORME.
If you see this bug with latest versions, feel free to reopen. Thanks.