105008 - mozilla crash, if calling JavaScript to open a window

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Christian Brueske]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011
BuildID:    20011011

On the start page of rtl (German tv) is a link called "Aktuelle Infos
fortlaufenden im Ticker" (more in the upper half of the page). That is a news
ticker with informations about the attackt of september 11'th and the war in
Afghanistan. If I try to click it mozilla crashes. Normally there should be
opend a window with the informations. I notice that, because the mozilla-sign
moves away. You can still browse, but if you quit mozilla and reopen it, it will
hang. That does not happen with Netscape 6.1.

Christian

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go on the page http://www.rtl.de
2. click the link "Aktuelle Infos fortlaufenden im Ticker" (more in the    upper
page)


Actual Results:  normally a window should be opened, but the mozilla-sign
(dragon) in the right upper corner moves away.
If you quit mozilla an reopen it, it is not working. In the Taskmanager it is
still running, althoug I deaktivated quick-launch.
If i use the mail & newsgroup browser (set the startpage for the message area to
www.rtl.de) it works normal, but not in the normal browser window. 


Expected Results:  It should be opened a window with informations

With Netscape 6.1 everythink is fine.

Comment 1

[Ashley Bischoff (blog at handcoding.com)]

WFM 2001101503 on Win2k.

Reporter: Please try a more recent build:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32-talkback.zip
(as always, be sure to delete your old Mozilla directory before installing the
new one)

Then, if you get a crash, please post the Talkback ID here.

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

I'm seeing this on 101503 mozilla trunk build on win2K. Over to DOM.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Attachment: Fix assertions from plugin wrapping code.

Comment 4

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

I don't see a crash when following the steps to reproduce this bug, bug I do see
a bug and bad assertions form the DOM scriptable helper code when trying to wrap
a embed object that doesn't point to a plugin, I'll check in that fix and I'll
try to reproduce the crash again.

Comment 5

[Christian Brueske]

This morning I tried build 20011016 (deleted always the old directory), but it
crashed, too. I could not give a talk-back id, because talk-back is not called
(or do I have to call it myself?). I notice the bug, if I close mozilla after
clicking the link and reopen it. That it won't come up.
But I have some more additional informations for you. It tried all mozilla
versions from 0.9.2 to 0.9.5+, until 0.9.3 everything is ok. Since 0.9.4 it crashed.
The bug-report I worte from home. At university I got two computers (W2k)
(notebook and desktop). On the desktop it works fine for all versions, but on
the notebook it crashes, too. So I tried a fourth computer (desktop) and there
it workes fine, too. Because of that, I will go an install a fresh windows and
see what happen.

Comment 6

[Syd Logan]

r=syd

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Assertion fixes are checked in, and I'm still unable to reproduce this crash.
Marking WORKSFORME, please reopen if this is still a problem.

Comment 8

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

This bug was fixed for the 6.2RTM. Marking verified