This was fixed in master by r186653 but that commit probably won't fix 2.8, since the backtrace there is quite different: Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (10 frames) #0 size at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WTF/wtf/Vector.h:651 #2 WebKit::WebTextCheckerClient::guessesForWord at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/WebTextCheckerClient.cpp:160 #3 WebKit::TextChecker::getGuessesForWord at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/gtk/TextCheckerGtk.cpp:128 #4 WebKit::WebPageProxy::getGuessesForWord at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/WebPageProxy.cpp:4255 #5 callMemberFunctionImpl<WebKit::WebPageProxy, void (WebKit::WebPageProxy::*)(WTF::String const&, WTF::String const&, WTF::Vector<WTF::String>&), std::tuple<WTF::String, WTF::String>, 0ul, 1ul, std::tuple<WTF::Vector<WTF::String, 0ul, WTF::CrashOnOverflow> >, 0ul> at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/Platform/IPC/HandleMessage.h:30 #6 callMemberFunction<WebKit::WebPageProxy, void (WebKit::WebPageProxy::*)(WTF::String const&, WTF::String const&, WTF::Vector<WTF::String>&), std::tuple<WTF::String, WTF::String>, std::make_index_sequence<2ul>, std::tuple<WTF::Vector<WTF::String, 0ul, WTF::CrashOnOverflow> >, std::make_index_sequence<1ul> > at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/Platform/IPC/HandleMessage.h:36 #7 handleMessage<Messages::WebPageProxy::GetGuessesForWord, WebKit::WebPageProxy, void (WebKit::WebPageProxy::*)(WTF::String const&, WTF::String const&, WTF::Vector<WTF::String>&)> at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/Platform/IPC/HandleMessage.h:105 #8 WebKit::WebPageProxy::didReceiveSyncMessage at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/DerivedSources/WebKit2/WebPageProxyMessageReceiver.cpp:1283 #9 IPC::MessageReceiverMap::dispatchSyncMessage at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/Platform/IPC/MessageReceiverMap.cpp:104 #10 WebKit::ChildProcessProxy::dispatchSyncMessage at /usr/src/debug/webkitgtk-2.8.3/Source/WebKit2/Shared/ChildProcessProxy.cpp:129 Full backtrace downstream.
Very annoying, but now obsolete.