See the other bug report he links to, i've had a bit of further experimentation and posted results there.
2008/11/17 Julio Lajara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > @kuba, the gif extension itself is not what matters, I was merely saying > that the image was a GIF image with the extension renamed. So if you > download the png to your computer, then rename it to GIF, you can see > the image in a picture viewer. If you dont do that then a picture viewer > will most likely not display the 50,000 px image. > > You can prove its a gif by dumping the first bit of the binary data on the > command line running: > more test.png > > In which case the first thing you should see is the GIF identifier. I > think this image may have embedded code in it that causes Firefox to > crash if its not related to the actual size of the image, which I would > find really difficult to believe is actually the problem here. > > -- > [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228806 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Phrase of the [period of time 'till I change it]: "I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code." -- [MASTER] various unrelated crashes for firefox-3.0 and xulrunner-1.9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/228806 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs