After upgrading firefox from version 17 (probably 17.0.9, not sure) to version 24 (24.8.0) it started crashing whenever I tried to post anything on web (that is, when I clicked some textarea and started writting in it) with message "firefox: buffer overflow attack in function <unknown> - terminated" It didn't do it with clear profile, so I tried to determine case. After long search, I found that I can reproduce the crash on clear profile when I install spellchecker (american, but I don't suppose it matters). Installing it on another computer doesn't reproduce the problem, so I suppose there is some library (possibly obsolete version) involved. But note that there were no problems with version 17.
Please post your `emerge --info www-client/firefox' output in a comment.
firefox 31.2.0 is going stable, unless you can produce same failure with it your bug will be closed obsolete when it is marked stable.
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1) > Please post your `emerge --info www-client/firefox' output in a comment. 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I've upgraded to app-text/hunspell-1.3.2-r3 (from 1.2.8), recompiled firefox, reinstalled spellcheck extensions and seems it helped: I've already posted several textareas and no crash. I'm not going to downgrade hunspell again just to test newer firefox, but I think raising the version in DEPEND for both shouldn't hurt.
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