I can confirm that the removal of the monaco font from my ~/.fonts directory and a subsequent 'sudo fc-cache -frv' and a restart of firefox cured the problem for me.
I would argue that this is still a bug though - a dodgy font should not bring firefox to its knees. Thanks for the tip, Shanmuhanathan. -- Firefox crash (Floating point exception (core dumped)) on Wikipedia pages such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxetics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174540 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
