189509 - mozilla1.3a crashes when going to bbc homepage

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Buckley Collum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

I can access all my normal news sites with no problems.
Following my bookmark to BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/) immediately crashes Mozilla.
I launched this from a shell, but there was no output.  Additionally, the
feedback window never activates after this crash.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.launch mozilla1.3a
2.enter location http://news.bbc.co.uk/
3.boom

Actual Results:  
mozilla dies

Expected Results:  
gone to the requested website

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

Make sure you have a symlink to the Java plug-in .so file, not the file itself.
Upgrade to JRE 1.4.1_01.

Comment 2

[Buckley Collum]

doh!
Yes, I had copied rather than linked.
Created link and all is well.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

Marking WFM.