686101 - if french dictionnary activated, firefox does random segfaults

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[crok.r245]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/6.0
Build ID: 20110830101704

Steps to reproduce:

I installed the french dictionnary and activated it.


Actual results:

Firefox randomly segfault.


Expected results:

Firefox shouldn't segfaults

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Can you please post links to crash reports from about:crashes?

Comment 2

[crok.r245]

Well I haven't got anything in about:crashes, I removed my ~/.mozilla several times to test the eventual reason, and a friend told me that it could be the French dictionary. I removed it, and now I didn't have those segfaults anymore.

Comment 3

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Are you running system Hunspell with your distro by chance? Older versions of Hunspell (up to about 1.2.12) had known crash issues with French dictionaries. Mozilla has been using Hunspell 1.3.2 in-tree since Firefox 5.

Comment 4

[crok.r245]

Well yes, Gentoo have hunspell-1.2.11 in stable, and I've got it. So an update should solve this problem? And if firefox has in-tree (does it mean included?) hunspell, I can remove it from my distro?

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Firefox comes with hunspell, imagelib etc. but Firefox can use system libs if you set some compile switches.
open about:buildconfig if you want to see the used compile switches for your build.
You would have to file a bug at Gentoo to either use the hunspell that comes with Firefox or to upgrade the hunspell version.

Comment 6

[crok.r245]

Indeed, Gentoo's Firefox is compiled with -enable-system-hunspell. I'll file a bug at Gentoo, tanks for all your replies.

Comment 7

[Alfredos-Panagiotis Damkalis [:fredy]]

I resolve this as invalid, if the bug still show up and there is a link on gentoo bug please fill it here.

Thanks