Comment 55 for bug 228806

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 address hidden>

> @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
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