215690 - Browser crash when accessing BBC news website

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[juha.louhisuo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718

Every time when I try to access BBC news website broswer craches. This happens
regardlessly if I use NS7.1 or Mozilla 1.5 alpha releases.

Problem is easy to reproduce, just access http://news.bcc.co.uk and bang crash
occurs.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Access BBC news website http://news.bbc.co.uk
2. When website asks where you are located, answer 'no' (that is what I'm doing
because I'm not located in UK
3. Broswer starts loading website and after for a while it crashes (disappears),
no quality feedback information seem to be produced)

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
Show the website >;-)

I have following plugins installed in the both NS7.1 and Mozilla 1.5a:
- Shockwawe Flash 6.0 r79
- Java plugin 1.4.2-b28
- default plugin (libnullplugin.so)
- nppdf.so
- rpnp.so

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

That site has a history of Java-related crashes.  If you disable Java, do you
still crash?

WFM 2003080808 PC/WinXP

Comment 2

[juha.louhisuo]

Crash do not occur if Java is disabled in the browser.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

are you using ns610-gcc32 for the JRE plugin symlink ?

Comment 4

[juha.louhisuo]

I have actually copied it to plugin directory. It is copied from ns610-gcc32
directory. I verified with 'diff' that 'libjavaplugin_oji.so' shared libraries
in both /usr/java/j2re1.4.2/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 and
/opt/Mozilla-1.5a/plugins are same.

Java plugin is version 1.4.2-b28. JRE was downloaded directly from java.sun.com,
otherwise Linux distribution I'm using is SuSE 8.2 with KDE.

Comment 5

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030817
Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+

Comment 6

[juha.louhisuo]

I tried BBC news again after updating both Java2 SDK and Mozilla to their latest
versions. The current configuration is following:
- Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827
- Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_01-b06
I can confirm that crash didn't occur any more, even Java was enabled in the
browser. Thanxs, good job!

Comment 7

[Joshua Xia]

->fixed on jpi side