Ok, this is what happens - simple html+css (attached next) makes any gecko-based browser (I've tried current mozilla, firefox and epiphany) crash X, without any messages in the X log. I've traced it down to the "Courier New" font, without "font-family: bold;" attribute. Once I add that attribute, gecko doesn't crash on rendering. I've done numerous tests with additional font-related CSS attributes, but none other seem to affect this. My xorg-x11 is 6.8.2-r5, but this has been happening since 6.8.2. At first, I've had xorg-x11 emerged with font-server USE flag, and this didn't crash X outright, but froze (and eventually crashed) firefox and stopped certain other applications from launching (error message saying something about "missing pango font or colorset"). Sometimes, xfs service restarting helped, sometimes it didn't. Also, sometimes, after such firefox crash, X couldn't be stopped by `/etc/init.d/xdm stop`, and when I switched back to the X console, the entire system would freeze completely. After I recompiled xorg-x11 without the font-server, entire X started to crash on those webpages. This also seem to happen with other fonts, f.e. viewing wikipedia.org often (not always, but about 90% of the time) causes this crash, yet I saw no Courier New font being used there. If you need any more info, just ask
Created attachment 69524 [details] HTML+CSS code which crashes Gecko
Created attachment 69532 [details] mozilla.jpg Hmm, anything specific I should do?
Well, maybe this should have been aimed to forums, but as I do not know gecko, X, freetype and other related software enough, I don't even know where to start looking for the problem. Blindly remerging packages and waiting for the result is not enjoyable anymore... Could you *please* give me few hints as to where to start looking? Perhaps via IRC, if you prefer.
Ugh, you understood wrongly ... I meant, is there anything I should set or not set in preferences regarding fonts? What is your default font? Do your allow documents to use their own fonts? Etc...
I am using default font settings in firefox, mozilla and epiphany.
The problem has gone away after emerge -e world, so we'll never know what caused it. Gecko engine still hangs my X from time to time, but that seems to be a completely unrelated issue. Thanks for trying to help.
