Activity log for bug #357270

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2009-04-07 20:27:02 Psy[H[] bug added bug
2009-04-07 20:27:02 Psy[H[] attachment added window titles http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24971362/title_crash.txt
2009-04-07 20:27:54 Psy[H[] summary some symbols in window title make panel crash certain symbols in window title make gnome-panel crash
2009-04-07 20:29:26 Psy[H[] description gnome-panel, metacity (when using alt-tab) and xfce analogs are affected. After some investigation made on Russian Ubuntu Community Forum ( http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.0;all ) statistics are: Situation occurs in both 8.10 and 9.04 beta, on 32 and 64 bit systems, roughly on 75% of users' machines when using gnome and xfce. Steps to reproduce: Open Firefox, go to http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ and watch the panel die, try alt+tab until focus on browser window, metacity will crash too. This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction

" and ":" When this title transfers to firefox window title, crash happens. Two title code variants contained in attached file and also in this message: http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.msg396111#msg396111 first is with symbols between "Fiction

" and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug. gnome-panel, metacity (when using alt-tab) and xfce analogs are affected. After some investigation made on Russian Ubuntu Community Forum ( http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.0;all ) statistics are: Situation occurs in both 8.10 and 9.04 beta, on 32 and 64 bit systems, roughly on 75% of users' machines when using gnome and xfce. Steps to reproduce: Open Firefox, go to http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ and watch the panel die, try alt+tab until focus on browser window, metacity will crash too. This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction" and ":" When this title transfers to firefox window title, crash happens. Two title code variants contained in attached file and also in this message: http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.msg396111#msg396111 first is with symbols between "Fiction

" and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug.
2009-04-07 20:31:38 Pedro Villavicencio gnome-panel (Ubuntu): status New Invalid
2009-04-07 20:31:53 Pedro Villavicencio marked as duplicate 280484
2009-04-07 20:34:15 Psy[H[] description gnome-panel, metacity (when using alt-tab) and xfce analogs are affected. After some investigation made on Russian Ubuntu Community Forum ( http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.0;all ) statistics are: Situation occurs in both 8.10 and 9.04 beta, on 32 and 64 bit systems, roughly on 75% of users' machines when using gnome and xfce. Steps to reproduce: Open Firefox, go to http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ and watch the panel die, try alt+tab until focus on browser window, metacity will crash too. This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction" and ":" When this title transfers to firefox window title, crash happens. Two title code variants contained in attached file and also in this message: http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.msg396111#msg396111 first is with symbols between "Fiction

" and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug. gnome-panel, metacity (when using alt-tab) and xfce analogs are affected. After some investigation made on Russian Ubuntu Community Forum ( http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.0;all ) statistics are: Situation occurs in both 8.10 and 9.04 beta, on 32 and 64 bit systems, roughly on 75% of users' machines when using gnome and xfce. Steps to reproduce: Open Firefox, go to http://blog.oup.com/2009/03/science-fiction/ and watch the panel die, try alt+tab until focus on browser window, metacity will crash too. This web page contains some symbols in it's title between "Fiction" and ":" When this title transfers to firefox window title, crash happens. Two title code variants contained in attached file and also in this message: http://forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=53913.msg396111#msg396111 first is with symbols between "Fiction" and ":", second is without. This code pieces can be used to reproduce bug in case of changes in original web-page that caused the bug.