Public bug reported: This happens to me frequently while using firefox (w/web developer extension). For a concrete and specific way to recreate...if you use firefox w/web developer extension, navigate to plone.org. Then click on the web developer toolbar 'Information' -> 'View JavaScript'. Scroll down and your x server will restart. No error messages are displayed and I don't see any relevant messages in Xorg.0.log. All unsaved data is lost. This also happens if I copy a long single line of text into an html form (again using firefox). I've seen other bug reports mention gedit and gtkTextView have problems with long text lines (for example, Bug #37511), but these seem to mostly be speed issues, not complete x server crashes. Just to test, I used wget to grab the javascript file that causes the crash and gedit displays it without any problems (there is on long line in the middle of the javascript). I'm not really sure which package is the culprit in my situation, so I didn't quite know where to post this. Also, if there are other logs I should look at and post here, let me know.
** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- xorg crashes when viewing long text lines https://launchpad.net/bugs/57914 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs