gnome-panel crashes when opening site in firefox

Bug #357712 reported by Dmitriy Geels
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Steps to reproduce:
1) open firefox
2) open url http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/

This page have long title, which contains 2 unicode symbols: " Nine Words You Might Think Came from Science but Which Are Really from Science Fiction<U+2028><U+2028> : OUPblog".
Firefox sets window title to this string, causing panel to crash.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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Dmitriy Geels (dmig) wrote :
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Dmitriy Geels (dmig) wrote :

Opening page using Opera doesn't crash gnome-panel.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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