Bug 246687

Summary:	www/firefox tab crashes on some sites with their own fonts
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Patrick Mackinlay <freebsd.68fba>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-gecko (Nobody) <gecko>
Status:	Closed DUPLICATE
Severity:	Affects Some People	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (gecko)
Priority:	---
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Patrick Mackinlay 2020-05-23 23:09:56 UTC

If firefox is configured to allow pages to choose their own fonts and you visit a uk government website (https://www.gov.uk/) the tab crashes.

If you configure firefox to disallow pages to choose their own fonts the tab works fine. 

This has been happening for some time (at least 3 months, but possibly much longer). I just tried this with firefox-76.0_3,1 on FreeBSD 12.1 amd64 and with a brand new profile.

Note that with firefox for OS X this doesn't happen, so the issue appears to be specific to FreeBSD.

I am a very heavy user of firefox on FreeBSD and this only ever seems to happen for uk government websites, they seem to provide their own fonts.

Comment 1 Jan Beich freebsd_committer

2020-05-24 00:38:40 UTC

Duplicate of bug 245915?

Comment 2 Patrick Mackinlay 2020-05-24 10:36:37 UTC

Yes, upgrading to fontconfig-2.13.92_2,1 fixed the problem.

thanks very much for your help.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 245915 ***