I think I've finally straightened out this problem.  I posted to the
Debian users' list about it, and someone (privately) indicated to me that
they'd had such a problem, and that it was traceable to a font permissions
problem.  He had discovered this by using strace.  I didn't even know
about strace, so I read up about it and also used it to start Mozilla.
Sure enough, the browser segfaulted right at a font permissions error.  I
chmod'ed that font (600 to 644), and afterward accessed the page in
question with Mozilla with no segfault/crash.  I think I know why the
problem exists: I'm still a bit hazy on permissions for various
files/dirs, and copied over a bunch of truetype fonts from Windows to
Linux.  I probably screwed up permissions in so doing.

So, my (hopefully) final question in all this is: what permissions are
fonts supposed to have?  These are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype.  I'd like
to just change them all en masse (in case some of them are wrong) to the
right permissions.  Any tips on doing this?

Thanks, James

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