[Bug 360132] [NEW] GNOME Panels crash on viewing HTML page in Firefox

[e2l]

Public bug reported:

(this is my first bug report; don't know whether I should file this
under GNOME, Firefox or Pango package)

As described in the German Ubuntuusers forum
(http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/firefox-springt-in-vollbild-bei-
aufruf-einer-/), the GNOME Panels "crash" (they disappear) when you view
a special HTML page in Firefox.

If you load this page in a tab, the GNOME Panels disappear. When you
close the tab, the Panels re-load.

The page is the following: http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/
(if they might change it, I copied the source code: http://paste.ubuntuusers.de/394705/)

It seems that a strange character in the HTML title is causing this. If
you copy the title into Google and search, the same problem appears:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=+++Nine+Words+You+Might+Think+Came+from+Science+but+Which+Are+Really+from+Science+Fiction%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8++%3A+OUPblog&btnG
=Google-Suche&meta=&aq=f&oq=

(the first character after "Fiction" seems to be it; although it doesn't
seem to be enough to copy it, I had atleast to copy "Really from Science
Fiction" + the following invisible characters, to cause the crash at
Googles SERP)

/var/log/messages of Ubuntuuser jug:
<code>
Apr  8 09:40:52 huan kernel: [ 2170.302374] gnome-panel[4925]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fae2f3e3578 sp 00007fff39ee1e40 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2400.0[7fae2f3c1000+46000]
Apr  8 09:40:55 huan kernel: [ 2172.888433] gnome-panel[4942]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fdccdf3f578 sp 00007fffd8a3b9a0 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2400.0[7fdccdf1d000+46000]
Apr  8 09:40:58 huan kernel: [ 2175.535847] gnome-panel[4948]: segfault at 0 ip 00007fe438ca9578 sp 00007fff437a7710 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2400.0[7fe438c87000+46000]
Apr  8 09:41:01 huan kernel: [ 2178.512656] gnome-panel[4954]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f4c8c763578 sp 00007fff972611c0 error 4 in libpango-1.0.so.0.2400.0[7f4c8c741000+46000]
</code>

There seems to be a similar (old/unfixed) bug report:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318863

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: firefox gnome libpango panel pango

** Tags added: firefox gnome libpango panel pango

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GNOME Panels crash on viewing HTML page in Firefox
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