148219 - crash if I open Page Info | Media Tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Page Info, defect)

Description

[René Seindal]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020529
Debian/1.0rc3-1
BuildID:    1.0.RC3

On this URL mozilla 1.0RC3 installed via Debian unstable packages crashes
consistently if I open Page Info, Media Tab.  It first shows the tab, then
within a second it crashes.

There is not console output.

The page has a flash thingy embedded, but other pages with flash doesn't crash.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/25510.html
2. Right click, select Page Info
3. Select the Media Tab and wait a bit.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

No problem at all. This should be a flash plugin problem. Is your profile not
corrupted ?

WFM WinXP - build 2002053006

Comment 2

[joakim_46]

WFM with build 2002052306 under Windows ME.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Page Info

Comment 4

[Adam Hauner]

Rene: Could you provide TalkBack incident ID?

Comment 5

[René Seindal]

Hi,

I downloaded a Talkback enabled build from mozilla.org, but I can't get it to
reproduce the problem, so it might be only the Debian build.

I also tried practically every other page on www.theregister.co.uk, and only
this one page crashes the Debian mozilla.

The flash object in question comes from ad.uk.doubleclick.net, and if I give
that name a bogus IP in /etc/hosts, the problem goes away, so it is related to
the flash object somehow.

I then tried to go to the URL, open Page Info, hit the Back Button and them
switch to the Media Tab, and it didn't crash.  I then hit the Forward Button,
and it went down.  I have no idea about how the Media Tab works, I thought it
was just a passive display of a part of the HTML elements of the page, but there
appears to be some kind of interaction.

Since it appears to be specific to the Debian build, please let this bug rest
for now.  There are probably more important things to work on for 1.0.
I for my part will post a message on the debian-users list to see if anybody
there can reproduce it.

I'll let you know how it goes.

René.

Comment 6

[R.K.Aa.]

No crash on the trunk and no crash testing 1.0rc3, Linux

However, i see no flash on the page, and i get this in JS console as page loads:
Error: navigator.plugins['Shockwave Flash'] has no properties
Source File:
http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adi/theregister.co.uk/mobile;area=mobile;pos=2;sz=120x600;tile=1;ord=100060?
Line: 17

I am not blocking any content.

Comment 7

[Ron Johnson]

This happened to me also.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/59/25510.html

Under 1.0rc2-3, right clicking on the page, and then choosing "View Page Info"
and clicking on the Media tab works fine.

However, with 1.0rc3-1, doing the same thing instantly terminates mozilla.
$ uname -a
Linux rebel 2.4.18 #1 Mon Mar 25 16:46:45 CST 2002 i686 unknown

On Win2000, mozilla 1.0rc3 and flash 6.0r29, it does _not_ crash.

libc6 2.2.5-6
libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2   2.95.4-7

Comment 8

[René Seindal]

This appears to be a problem with the Debian build, so I'll report to the Debian
BTS.

René.

Comment 9

[Adam Hauner]

So should be this bug marked as WFM?

Comment 10

[René Seindal]

I still have the problem with 1.0.
It does afflict a few others, but not the debian maintainer.
It only happens on very few pages, which all have flash objects in them.

I have tried with a clean profile, but it still crashes.
I have reinstalled the flash plugin using the debian metapackage, but it still
crashes.

The problem first appeared with 1.0rc3.  That version introduced a sound-wrapper
which I think was intended to solve some problems between esd and flash.  It
might be connected to that, I don't know, I'm just a user of Mozilla.

If you want to close the bug I don't mind.

René.

Comment 11

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

if it still crashes, we won't close it. We need to try and work on a reduced 
testcase. Are there talkbacks for this thing?

Comment 12

[René Seindal]

Hi,

I just discoved bug 149012 and it crashes for me too, so maybe the two are related?

René.

Comment 13

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

no, that's a different one. Wouldn't suprise me if this was fixed pretty 
quickly, there's a bit of a rewrite for that part of page info in the works. 
They might have the same bandaid.

Comment 14

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Does this still crash with a current Mozilla build?

Comment 15

[René Seindal]

No it doesn't crash anymore for me.

I now have:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030430 Debian/1.3-5

Comment 16

[Adam Hauner]

Marking as WFM.