Problems with Mozilla Crashing
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu Apr 29 16:45:29 UTC 2004
Robin Laing wrote:
> John Nichel wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've searched the archives and found quite a few people are having
>> problems with Mozilla and Fedora 1. I tried all the suggestions that
>> I found: installed M$'s TTF fonts, uninstalled/reinstalled the
>> ttfonts-ja package, created a new profile from scratch, etc. and still
>> no go. I've tried these steps both with the RPM version (1.4) and the
>> latest download from Mozilla (1.6), but Mozilla will still just 'exit'
>> with no warning, and no error messages. Does anyone have any other
>> suggestions? TIA
>>
>
> If it is site dependent, check for a problem with fonts.
>
> I had this problem when accessing certain sites and found that there was
> a font problem and makeing a link fixed all my crashes.
>
> There was no zysong.ttf font on my system and creating a link from
> zysnog.ttf > gbsn001p.ttf stopped 99.9% of my crashes.
>
> This is in the following directory.
> /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType
>
> There is a bug report on the RedHat site about this and is where I found
> it.
>
Here is a RedHat link to the problem.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04215.html
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