Bug 53102 – Firefox-0.8-r2 crashes when browsing some pages if compiled with gtk support

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Alexsander de Souza 2004-06-05 17:40:46 UTC]

Firefox-0.8-r2 crashes when browsing the following url:
http://www.orkut.com/Profile.aspx

It hapens with the binary version (mozilla-firefox-bin) too. I've corrected the problem by compiling it without gtk2 support (USE="-gtk2")

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open firefox
2.Login in orkut
3.Click profile (in the left)

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes while the page is loading. It starts to show the page and some 
images, but can't complete the process. 

Expected Results:  
Load the page 

Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 
2.6.5-gentoo-r1) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo 
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="3dnow X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr chroot crypt cups divx4linux encode 
esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde kerberos libg++ 
libwww linguas_pt_BR mad matroska mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis 
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell 
ssl svga tcpd truetype usb video_cards_nvidia x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Joseph Booker 2004-06-05 17:52:35 UTC]

try to run 'strace /usr/libexec/MozillaFirefox/firefox-bin' and show the output of that

Also, show us the (x)html of his page, it might use some very very weird IE-only code that crashes in more/less compliement web browsers

[Comment 2 Alexsander de Souza 2004-06-05 19:29:56 UTC]

Created attachment 32762 [details]
The test webpage

This is the HTML page i've tried to view. It seems ok for me, and it works fine
with konqueror, firefox without gtk enabled and firefox for windows.

[Comment 3 Alexsander de Souza 2004-06-05 20:38:55 UTC]

Created attachment 32766 [details]
Execution trace

This is the execution trace.

[Comment 4 Alexsander de Souza 2004-06-05 20:43:17 UTC]

I've made more tests and it seems to work with gtk2 if I use the "moznoxft" flag. 

[Comment 5 Aaron Peterson 2004-08-10 15:04:51 UTC]

old? submitted upstream if that website is still problematic?
bugzilla.mozilla.org

[Comment 6 Alexsander de Souza 2004-08-10 16:57:27 UTC]

I've moved to firefox 0.9.3 and from xfree to xorg-x11, so I no longer have the same environment to reproduce the error. My current system is working fine and was build with these flags: -debug +gtk2 -ipv6 +java +moznoxft +truetype -xinerama.

Last time I tried the 0.8.x series it still didn't work without the moznoxft USE flag, and I wasn't able to use the binary version also. 

[Comment 7 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-08-11 04:47:36 UTC]

Sounds like this problem was fixed between 0.8 and 0.9.3 then...