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Firefox Crashes on Gmail

Posted on 12/15/2006 by Adam
4 Comments

Last week I noticed that every time I tried to compose an email in Gmail, Firefox would have a hard crash. I figured it was something in the javascript and left Gmail alone for a few days since it is Beta. This week I decided to try it again and I experienced the same behavior. In an effort to debug this problem I tried Gmail in all the browsers that I had installed. I had the same crash in Camino and Opera but it worked fine in Safari. After much poking around I found that my Palatino font was corrupted. After replacing the font everything was fine.

Tagged: Gmail, firefox

Comments

Posted by klaus on November 22, 2007

same here, fixed the font and everything works - no more crashes. thank you for the hint.

Posted by Confused on April 16, 2008

Is this winxp?

Sorry to be dense, but how does one replace the font?

Posted by Robert on June 09, 2008

How do I find out if I have a corrupted font? I imported some fonts from my laptop, and also for my office computer and since then, I have been getting Firefox crashes when I close Gmail.

Posted by Travis on August 22, 2008

@Confused and @Robert This was happening on a Mac. This article will explain how to find corrupt fonts: http://www.lifespy.com/2007/mac-tips-find-and-eliminate-corrupt-fonts-in-osx/