[lug] xfs and galeon / mozilla

[Peter Hutnick]

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On Friday 14 June 2002 12:21 pm, Ed Hill wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> In the last few days, I read that mozilla with the X font server (xfs)
> can cause crashes when requests are made for ridiculously large fonts.
> Apparently, if you try to view web sites with such fonts, mozilla (and
> mozilla-based browsers) will crash or cause swap storms.
>
> Today, I was looking for info on a Symbios SYM22801 card and I typed
> "Symbios SYM22801 linux" into google using galeon as my web browser.  A
> swap storm ensued as xfs tried to use up every bit of available memory.
> I killed galeon and the memory was freed up.  This happened three times
> in a row and I was wondering if anyone else could repeat my
> experience...?

With Moz 1.0 RC3 that search comes up fine for me.

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