Closing so. Didn't look like a gaim issue but rather a freetype or fontconfig one. I'm marking the bug as rejection since it stopped happening but that's not due to some gaim "fix" from a package. Feel free to reopen if you get the issue again
** Changed in: gaim (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- Gaim crashes when hovering voer a hyperlink https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32764 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs