Fonts can cause Safari (and Sarafi-reliant systems) to crash

I just got back from helping out Dan with his computer troubles. It turns out that when he switched from PC to macintosh he copied over a whole bunch of fonts. They didn't cause any problems under 10.2, but 10.3 was a firestorm. Something about one of the fonts would cause Safari to crash as soon as it tried to show any text. A lot of other Mac OS X stuff uses Safari's core, so they would crash as well. This included Software Update, Mail, Help Viewer, Acquisition, etc.

Removing the old fonts from /Library/Fonts/ solved the crashes, and all is now well again.

Posted by dustin on April 18, 2004 with category tags of apple

3 comments
I'm having a same problem. Could you tell me which old fonts should I remove?
→ comment by Danu on August 7, 2004

I am not sure which fonts caused the problem. You should remove them all to see if that solves it. If it does then copy the fonts back a few at a time to figure out which ones are at fault.
→ comment by dustin (#1) on August 7, 2004

This tip helped me! Now i just have to find witch fonts is doing this ...
→ comment by harro on December 3, 2004

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