97505 - Reset-crash caused by Java plug-in activation when playing streaming music on RealPlayer (Moz0.9.3)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Plugins Graveyard :: RealPlayer (Real), defect)

Description

[Mart Rootamm]

First an explanation -
Reset-crash: This crash is such that the computer does not react to keyboard
commands (like Ctrl+Alt+Del; in this case, the TalkBack program cannot be
activated) and requires a manual reset (either by using a Reset button or in the
lack thereof, a Power button).

Browser in use: Mozilla 0.9.3

What happened:
I was playing a Real clip on RealPlayer 8 Basic (6.0.9.584) - Mozilla's
QuickLaunch was active at the time and when I activated Mozilla from there and
then I opened a website containing a very complex frameset. In this frameset, an
aforementioned (in the URL field) page was partially opened. When requesting to
activate Java, the whole computer locked. It did not react to repetitive uses of
Ctrl+Alt+Del and required me to use the Reset button.

Similar crashes have also happened when RealPlayer was activated and playing
when Mozilla was already running with Java activated.
-Mart.

Comment 1

[Mart Rootamm]

This bug is somwhat similar to bug 91291, because Real and Java were in use
there, too.

Comment 2

[Chase Tingley]

clearing milestone and priority (developers set those); tidying up keywords

Comment 3

[Mart Rootamm]

Changed bug title to more precise. Can anyone change the title to something 
shorter, but equally descriptive?

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

setting bug status to New

Comment 5

[Mart Rootamm]

I now have Mozilla 0.9.6... An attempt to reproduce this bug now does not seem
to have no effect on the browser and/or systems as of 08.12.2001. I don't know
how it will make it in the longer term (haven't had a chance to use it often
enough), but 0.9.6 is working okay.

Also, Mozilla 0.9.5 had something very serious going on, as it often caused a
reset-crash when Java 1.3.1_01 (As far as I remember, it was this version) was
either being activated or working in the browser, no matter what program was or
wasn't playing (music and the like) in the background. This seems to be resolved
in Mozilla 0.9.6 and Java 1.3.1_01a.

Since Netscape 6.2 is based on Mozilla 0.9.4.1, Mozilla 0.9.4 might also have
either this bug or something similar, because 0.9.3 and 0.9.5 did not behave
well. I don't know this exactly enough, because I didn't use 0.9.4 often enough
because I had no knowledge then on how to activate Java after installing it
(because of bug #104387 :).

Current versions of related programs (as of date given above):
RealPlayer 6.0.9.584;
Mozilla 0.9.6;
Java Runtime Edition (consumer release) 1.3.1_01a.

P.S.
I could not set the version for Mozilla in this bug.

-Mart.