*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 280484 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280484
** Attachment added: "window titles"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24971362/title_crash.txt
** Summary changed:
- some symbols in window title make panel crash
+ certain symbols in window title make gnome-panel crash
** Description changed:
gnome-panel, metacity (when using alt-tab) and xfce analogs are affected.
After some investigation made on Russian Ubuntu Community Forum (
http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.0;all ) statistics are: Situation
occurs in both 8.10 and 9.04 beta, on 32 and 64 bit systems, roughly on 75% of
users' machines when using gnome and xfce.
Steps to reproduce:
Open Firefox, go to http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ and watch
the panel die, try alt+tab until focus on browser window, metacity will crash
too.
- This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction
-
- " and ":"
+ This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction" and ":"
When this title transfers to firefox window title, crash happens.
Two title code variants contained in attached file and also in this message:
http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.msg396111#msg396111
first is with symbols between "Fiction
" and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug
in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug.
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certain symbols in window title make gnome-panel crash
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357270
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