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And a similar tweet: (WARNING / CRASH) https://twitter.com/daken_/status/303784082599456768

works fine on Chrome dev running on ML.

Firefox nightly is fine too.

Gee, I wonder why.

This bug isn't particular to Chrome...

But it is "particular" to WebKit (on iOS and OSX, due to CoreText), which Firefox has nothing to do with.

Read the first comment; since when was curl a WebKit tool?

> This isn't a bug inside WebKit. It's a bug inside Apples CoreText font rendering framework.

We do use Core Text in Firefox on OS X, although not for all parts of text layout/rendering nowadays, AIUI. We're using Harfbuzz for some text shaping, so it's possible we're not using the particular Core Text APIs that hit this bug.

Didn't crash for me on Chrome (Stable) in the first place, but when I tried to translate the page it did.

Seems to crash the tab in Chrome 29 on OSX.

not crashing safari for me... Mavericks beta.

Safari crashes on 10.8.4 for me.