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Bug 481201 - Browser crashes on some multibyte character set sites
Browser crashes on some multibyte character set sites
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-28 08:28 UTC by LingNing Zhang
Modified: 2007-09-29 03:36 UTC
See Also:
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Description LingNing Zhang 2007-09-28 08:28:15 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214636

Opened by Matt Britt (matt.britt@gatech.edu)  	 on 2006-11-08 13:46 EST  	[reply]  	   Private

Description of problem:
With Pango enabled, Gecko-based browsers will crash on some websites that use
multiple-byte character sets.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox or Galeon
2. Navigate to a page like http://hi.wikipedia.org/ or http://ja.wikipedia.org/
3. Crash 'n burn
4. Repeat process with Pango disabled; no crash observed

Additional info:
Disabling Pango by setting the environment variable MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 stops
crashes.



Steps to reproduce:


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2007-09-28 23:44:59 UTC 
Not pango.  And I believe I fixed a major source of these crashes in firefox+pango patch months ago.
Comment 2 LingNing Zhang 2007-09-29 03:36:08 UTC 
behdad, could you please add some comments and close the same bug in RedHat bugzilla ?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214636
Thank you, :)