So I’m working on a new site (http://northphoto2.smugmug.com/) fat, dumb, and happy and all the sudden I refresh to get a new look at the page and BAM! Firefox crashes on me, hard. So I spend the next 2 hours using Safari to remove pieces of code until I narrow down the culprit. It was this (in the body tag):
font-family:”myriad pro”, myriad, verdana;
Honestly, wtf? So I logged into a Mozilla IRC channel and asked if anyone had heard of such a thing. It turns out that Firefox (not sure if it’s limited to Mac or not) has some problems with its font handling from time to time. Unfortunately, the bug is erratic. One person who looked at the page saw it just fine. Another two had it crash on them. I created a test page at http://www.mikelanestudios.com/firefoxTest.html and it locked up my browser but one of the people that had a problem earlier didn’t have a problem with that page. So of course, this bug went off to Mozilla’s never never land of could not duplicate bugs.
But in testing with my machine I was able get it to stop crashing on me. All I did was open LinoType Font Explorer and deactivate the Myraid fonts and then reactivate them. Now I don’t get crashes on that page or the other two pages (my test page and a theme in SmugMug called Carbonite) whenever I go to them. So if your Firefox is crashing hard core on you, it may be because of its font handling.
I guess no product is perfect.
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