Bug#448790: epiphany-browser: Epiphany dies attempting to display large image

[Philip Armstrong]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 2.20.0-3
Severity: normal

Trying to display this image:

  http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/foto/7f8dad84_humanity.jpg

causes epiphany (and any other gecko based browser, so maybe the bug
should be against one of the libraries?) to die with an X11 error on
my machine:

  The program 'epiphany-browser' received an X Window System error.
  This probably reflects a bug in the program.
  The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
    (Details: serial 3587 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)

Now, it maybe that the X server couldn't allocate enough memory (no
idea why, but I'm using the radeon driver with an R200 with EXA turned
on. I'll have to see if turning off EXA makes any difference...) but
if that's the case then the browser shouldn't just die; it should
refuse to display the image with an error. Really of course, there's
no reason why it shouldn't be able to display the image even if
there's not enough X resources to be able to store the whole image on
the server: eog manages to display the image just fine.

cheers, Phil

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
ii  epiphany-gecko                2.20.0-3   Intuitive GNOME web browser - Geck

epiphany-browser recommends no packages.

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