The png in the url field is a quite large 12000x1900 image. It crashes both Firefox and Epiphany with a very similar error message : remi@stratos ~/tabs $ firefox http://plaes.org/files/2006-Q4/gentoo-circular-deps-hell.png No running windows found 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 4126 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.) firefox-bin exited with non-zero status (1) Both were compiled with : CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -mmmx -m3dnow -pipe" After a quick check on another box, firefox doesn't crash with this file CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -pipe" Both sets of cflags are supposed to be safe according to the doc. Maybe it's a Xorg bug? (i'm using an r300 ...)
Go tell upstream Mozilla developers that X server is not a data storage engine for huge uncompressed pictures; we won't fix it.
