152605 - Mozilla browser freezes and goes comatose when browsing a particular web site

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Brian Vetter]

When I try to browse the site http://www.ghcs.org, Mozilla hangs and becomes
unresponsive. I have no idea why, but IE6 and NS4 work fine. It appears to be a
page created using frontpage and their java applets for hover buttons. It could
be hosing up when kicking off the Java VM, but I have not problems running any
other sites with Java.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter:
Which JRE do you use ?
if 1.3.x can you please upgrade to JRE1.4 and try again ?

Comment 2

[Andrew Hagen]

WFM 1.1 alpha, 2002061712 Windows 98, Sun Java 1.4.0_01.

Reporter, use the Bugzilla Helper to report bugs. What version of Mozilla are 
you using? Try upgrading Mozilla as well as your Java version, like comment 1 
said to do.

Comment 3

[Brian Vetter]

I had already moved to JRE 1.3.1_02 because of previous JRE issues in RC2 (see
release notes). I upgraded to JRE 1.4.0_01 and it got stuck in an infinite loop.
I then went and deleted the NPOJI610.dll that was laid down as part of the JRE
install and it now works (I can browse the page, not that I want to).

As to Andrews questions/comments, I did use the reporter and for the life of me,
couldn't get the version info into the fields. "other" was the only option. That
said, I'm using Mozilla 1.0 and I had JRE 1.3.1_02 installed.

If the solution is to use JRE 1.4, then I suggest the release notes get fixed.

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is a bug in JRE 1.3.x and Mozilla can't fix it...
Also this is already fixed because it works with JRE1.4

-> wfm

Comment 5

[Brian Vetter]

Fine, call it fixed because it works in JRE 1.4, but reassign this as a bug in
the release notes. The release notes say that it has been tested and works in
JRE's after JRE 1.3.1_01 - that is not true.

Fix the release note.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

no !
This is a special case !
JRE1.3.x works as expected on 96% of all pages.
97.5% will work with JRE1.4.X

(the numbers are random)

-> wfm
The documentaion is correct. This is a simple bug in The JRe1.3.x plugin with
this applet..

Comment 7

[Brian Vetter]

Too bad the fphover applet that causes this hang is used by lots of lazy people
who use Frontpage. I run into it way too often.

Comment 8

[Brant Gurganus]

For sites with problems such as this, file an issue in Tech Evangelism.