Bug#324205: epiphany-browser: crashes when calling some URLs via mozilla-thunderbird

[Kai-Martin]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 1.4.8-3
Severity: important


epiphany crashes when called by a URL in a mail that is displayed with 
mozilla-thunderbird. A warning is issued on stderr:
(x-www-browser:5975): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_property_get(): length value has wrapped in calculation (did you pass G_MAXLONG?)

The crash occurs apparently just after the page was downloaded. 

Epiphany chokes only some URLs:

offending URL:
   http://pages.ebay.de/help/contact_inline/index.html

harmless URL:
   http://earlgrey.fs-maphy.uni-hannover.de/mailman/admindb/exfsr

The URL from ebay askes to place some cookies, while the other url is just 
plain html. Maybe this is significant. 

I tried to point /etc/x-www-browser to the other www-browsers on my system.
result:  
*  epiphany and galeon crash
*  Konqueror, mozilla-1.7.8, mozilla-firefox and work ok.

        ---<(kaimartin)>---

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  debconf                  1.4.57          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gconf2                   2.10.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme         2.10.1-2        GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.1-2        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-3         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.0.1-4       GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4              2.10.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.5.1-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.10.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.9-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.2-1      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.2-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5               1:3.3.5-13      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.20-1        GNOME XML library
ii  mozilla-browser          2:1.7.8-1       The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  mozilla-psm              2:1.7.8-1       The Mozilla Internet application s
ii  scrollkeeper             0.3.14-10       A free electronic cataloging syste
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
pn  epiphany-extensions           <none>     (no description available)
ii  yelp                          2.10.0-2   Help browser for GNOME 2

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