227874 - Crash whenever I go to osnews.com

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bernard johnston]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031202 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031202 Firebird/0.7

I just downloaded the latest version of Firebird for Solaris 8 on sparc.
Unzipped it, ran ./MozillaFirebird. 

Type in "osnews.com" to the location bar.

Immediate crash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Type in "osnews.com" to the location bar
2.Hit enter.
3.Crash

Actual Results:  
Browser completely crashes and disappears.

Expected Results:  
Shown me the page.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

No crash on WinXP

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Firebird/0.7+

Comment 2

[Bernard johnston]

I don't doubt that this crash doesn't occur on Linux or Windows, as I assume
that the software is usually tested frequently on those two platforms. However,
I'm stuck here on Solaris and I really need a decent browser. Firebird is
crashing way too frequently on Sparc/Solaris. I assume that
for some reason the Solaris build is picking up some bugs that for whatever 
reason haven't occurred often on other platforms, so fixing these Solaris
crashes will probably be beneficial for the software as a whole.

Comment 3

[Haudy Kazemi]

Did Firebird .7 or Firefox .9 or .9.1 behave any differently?  .9 on XP works
fine.  Does mozilla 1.6 or 1.7 crash on this site on Solaris?

Comment 4

[Gautam Guliani]

0.9.1 does not crash on OS X

Comment 5

[Tim Meader]

Sigh.... give this one a shot:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.2/contrib/

If there is no further complaint in the next couple of days I'll close this.

Comment 6

[Bernard johnston]

Just downloaded and installed Firefox 0.9.1 for Solaris/Sparc. Went to OSNews
and there isn't any crash. Seems to be fixed.