125252 - New Scientist news articles crash Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[edcjones]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    2002020415

If I click on any of the news articles at http://www.newscientist.com/news/, the
article mostly displays, then Mozilla crashes without going into talkback mode.
I suspect the ads. There was no such problem with mozilla-0.9.7. I installed
Mozilla from mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.8-sea.tar.gz.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.newscientist.com/news/
2. Click on any news article.
3. Mozilla crashes without activating Talkback.

Actual Results:  Mozilla crashes without activating Talkback.


Expected Results:  Display the news article page.


I use RedHat 7.1 Linux on a PC with Win4Lin kernel mods.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

There's a java applet on those pages. 
Reporter: do you have java installed and activated? (Version?)
Does the crash happen if you disable java? 

WFM linux, 10h old CVS w/JRE1.3.1-b24

Comment 2

[edcjones]

The file /usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so is present.
So is /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so which is the same size.

When I disabled Javascript (!) the problem went away.

How do I disable Java from the Edit / Preferences window?

Comment 3

[Daniel Steinberger]

WFM with both java+javascript activated on 2002021203/win32, just to confirm it
doesn't seem to be crossplatform.

Comment 4

[Dan]

Works for me 2002021203 WinMe.

Comment 5

[timeless]

/usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so must be a symlink. however i don't see any signs of java on the page, so i'll assume the problem is JS

Comment 6

[edcjones]

It turns out that /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so and
/usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so were either
hard-linked to each other or were separate files. So I:

cd /usr/local/mozilla/plugins
rm libjavaplugin_oji.so
ln -s /usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so

After this, the problem with http://www.newscientist.com/news/ is gone. This
also fixed Bug 124910: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/8162/battle.html

I suspect that the 0.9.8 installer made a mistake with libjavaplugin_oji.so. Is
it true that libjavaplugin_oji.so must be sym-linked and not hard-linked or a copy?

Comment 7

[timeless]

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.8/
Java
Linux With tar.gz builds on Linux, after the JRE has installed, put a symlink 
in your mozilla0.9.8 /plugins directory to the 
java2/plugin/i386/ns610/libjava.oji.so directory.