Gecko-based browsers seg fault

[Anton Markov]

Noah John Gellner wrote:
> I have been experiencing a maddening problem with gecko based browsers.
> When I try to access certain sites, including a site I need for school,
> the browser immediately seg faults. For example, if I try to access
> http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002CDOCW/qid=1097523592/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_8_1/249-0718652-1413918
> my browser crashes. This problem is affecting: mozilla 1.73, firefox
> 1.0_pre-r2, and ephiphany 1.4.4. I _can_ access the sites using
> konqueror from kde 3.3.1.
>
> Does the above link work for people on this list? Can anyone recommend
> further troubleshooting? I have posted to gentoo's bugzilla. This
> problem is fast becoming a show stopper.

It works for me on a Mozilla Foundation binary of Mozilla Firefox PR1. 
The website does appear to use a lot of Japanese/asian characters. I use 
US_en as my system locale and Firefox reports that the site uses 
"Shift_JIS" encoding. I am running Debian Unstable.

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