GTK2 Mozilla crash with forums

deathdruid · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject: GTK2 Mozilla crash with forums

I know Mozilla and GTK2 is considered an unstable combination, but I wanted to know if the other brave souls out there are experiencing the same problems I am.

My Mozilla install is compiled against GTK2 with the flags "-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe". Every time I visit the Gentoo forums and am viewing posts, Mozilla randomly crashes. For a more repeatable test case, try visiting http://i2cs.cs.uiuc.edu. That page crashes every time I visit.

Any similar/dissimilar experiences out there?

Thanks,
Rahul

474 · l33t Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 714

Yes, used to get the same thing happen every time I tried to search the forums. The bottom line is that if you want a stable Mozilla (for now), you really must avoid linking it to gtk2!

brainlock · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Jun 2002 Posts: 110

I never had Mozilla with GTK2 crash in these forums;
I just tried the link to your page and it didn't crash;
I am writing this with Mozilla GTK2 without crashing;

As a matter of fact, the ONLY time Mozilla GTK2 ever crashed on me was when I opened a pdf file with the embedded acrobat reader.

Obviously, different systems will have different results and that is why it isnt recommended. Maybe it helped that I recently did a fresh install of gentoo with Gnome 2.2...

Brainlock

maKKus · Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 10:56 pm Post subject:

I'm also having no problems with gtk+2 mozilla and this forum and your linked webpage.

Running mozilla 1.3b and gnome 2.2

deathdruid · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:49 am Post subject:

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have entered a bug in Mozilla's bugzilla and am recompiling a debug-enabled binary so I can get a good stacktrace. Hope that I can get some solution once I give them the trace. Once you go GTK2, you never go back!

deathdruid · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 3:51 am Post subject:

sharky44 · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 48 Location: USA

I've had some problems with both GTK2 and non-GTK2 Mozilla and Phoenix crashing when sites that use certain fonts were used. It stumped me for a while...then turned out that the fonts I'd copied over from Windows had permissions -r--------. So...

deathdruid · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject: Microsoft Sans Serif

Make sure no *.fon files exist in your font directory, specifically the Microsoft Sans Serif font. It causes crashes with GTK2-enabled Gecko browsers, and was the cause of my problem. The problem has been reported to the Mozilla team.

-Rahul