291667 - crash when loading the "IE7" home page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 288818

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andy Korvemaker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050406 Firefox/1.0.2 (Debian package 1.0.2-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050406 Firefox/1.0.2 (Debian package 1.0.2-3)

When I attempt to view the "IE7" home page Firefox crashes.

It seems to almost finish loading the page before crashing, but it crashes every
time.

It did not crash using a copy of the page saved locally by Opera.

The only error message when I run Firefox from a console is "Segmentation fault".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/
2. Wait for it to almost finish loading the page.
3. Watch it crash. :-(

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashed (Segmentation fault)

Expected Results:  
Not crash, display the page. If it made me a coffee I'd be ecstatic, but that
might be asking a little much.

I also tried it on a "vanilla" install (no extensions, themes, etc.) with the
same result

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Firefox/1.0.3

Page loads fine for me.

Comment 2

[Andy Korvemaker]

There is some discussion with the page author going on at
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1272293&forum_id=379297

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Please provide a talkback ID from a recent Mozilla.org trunk (!) build with
talkback included.

Comment 4

[Andy Korvemaker]

Matti: Is a "trunk build" just default build from mozilla.org?

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

FF1.0.3 is from the old Firefox 1.0 branch. 
This branch is very old. 
You can find a current nightly trunk developer build here :
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

Comment 6

[Andy Korvemaker]

Thanks for the info. I tried it with version 1.0.3 from the home page and the
crash did not occur. I'll try with a trunk build as well.

In the meantime I've attempted to file a bug report in the Debian BTS (I'm not
sure if it worked or not - it's my first try).

Comment 7

[Andy Korvemaker]

The trunk build also worked fine. It may just be a problem with the Debian build.

I've filed bug #306079 in Debian's BTS
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306079).

Comment 8

[José Jeria]

based on reporters comment 3 --> wfm

Comment 9

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

verified
That is the reason why we only accept bugs from Mozilla.org builds...

Comment 10

[Andy Korvemaker]

Thanks for the help and tips in tracking down the problem!

Comment 11

[Andy Korvemaker]

Looks like this was actually a dupe of 288818. Reopening so I can close it with
the proper resolution (in case anyone comes across this bug in the future).

Comment 12

[Andy Korvemaker]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 288818 ***