#8719 BLOC 8.2.1: OLPC Wiki Community news crashes Firefox

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#8719: OLPC Wiki Community news crashes Firefox
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   Reporter:  thomaswamm        |       Owner:  marco                            
       Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                              
   Priority:  blocker           |   Milestone:  8.2.1                            
  Component:  firefox-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                                   
Next_action:  diagnose          |    Verified:  0                                
  Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                                   
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Changes (by thomaswamm):

 * cc: isforinsects (added)
  * next_action:  reproduce => diagnose


Comment:

 The second attached olpc-log tarball was collected after I Browsed to the
 killer wiki page.  I had Firefox-6 idling (in Trac) in the background
 while I tested Browse.  Browse froze within a few minutes, then when I
 returned from work many hours later, Browse was gone but this Firefox was
 still okay.  Apparently Browse died from an X BadAlloc, not from oom-
 killer.  The night before, Firefox got killed by oom-killer.

 I suggest that someone should fix the toxic wiki page ASAP.  Maybe it has
 lots of big image files?  I was able to view it on my desktop WinXP PC
 with Mozilla 1.7.13, though it was a bit slow.

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