Firefox and SeaMonkey crashes

[Dave Yeo]

Anyone who has experienced crashes at certain web sites in the font
matching code with Firefox 6 or newer, this seems to be the fix.
Thanks to Leonard for finding this.

Not a fix, but a workaround that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere,

I went

into about:config and set 'gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled' to False

and these

traps completely went away. Not sure about side-effects, but I haven't
noticed any problems with the sites I frequent. YMMV.

Dave

[piesse]

Thanks
However, it does not fix (it just postpones it a little)the crashes that
I am recently experiencing when logging in at www.dropbox.com (now I
have to use arora to use dropbox)

cheers
piersante

Post by Dave Yeo
Anyone who has experienced crashes at certain web sites in the font
matching code with Firefox 6 or newer, this seems to be the fix.
Thanks to Leonard for finding this.

Not a fix, but a workaround that I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere,

I went

into about:config and set 'gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled' to False

and these

traps completely went away. Not sure about side-effects, but I haven't
noticed any problems with the sites I frequent. YMMV.

Dave

[Steve Wendt]

Post by piesse
However, it does not fix (it just postpones it a little)the crashes that
I am recently experiencing when logging in at www.dropbox.com (now I
have to use arora to use dropbox)

Are you getting the same traps listed in the trap log?

[piesse]

Post by Steve Wendt
Are you getting the same traps listed in the trap log?

don't know. A reboot fixed them.

piesse