129013 - Mouse wheel and tabbed browsing bug crashes browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 120863

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Alexander Dietrich]

I'm periodically suffering from this bug on Linux build 2002020415.

It's a really weird one and I haven't found a way yet to reproduce it.
I hope somebody knows what I'm talking about. My browser is configured
to show the tab bar only when more than one is open.

The bug usually works like this:

- Two tabs are open.
- I right-click on the current tab and select "Close Tab".
- The tab bar just disappears, leaving me with the *current* tab.
- I press Ctrl-W to close the current tab, the *other* tab re-appears.
  (But not the tab bar, obviously.)
- I scroll the mousewheel down.
- Nothing happens. This is not good, because:
- One second later the whole browser is gone.

This crash is never followed by the talkback agent,
the URLs visited up to the crash are not marked in the history.

Comment 1

[Alexey Chernyak]

can't reproduce on 2002030223

Reporter could you please try a recent nightly build and see if you still get
crashes

Comment 2

[Alexander Dietrich]

Maybe I wasn't being clear enough:

You can't just reproduce the crash, it just *happens* every now and then.

I'd be happy to find a way to reproduce it, because that's the kind of
bug that really turns off users, it makes using Mozilla a nightmare.

I'm going to install a nightly build and see if it went away, but that
might take quite some time, since the bug is so unpredictable.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

looks like a dupe of bug 117736 (see bug 121554).
worksforme, linux build 2002030406

Comment 4

[Alexander Dietrich]

I wouldn't say so. In my case there is NEVER any reaction from Talkback,
and it doesn't happen while loading a page, but after some really weird
behaviour when using tabbed browsing. I'm still waiting for it to happen
again.

Comment 5

[Alexander Dietrich]

It just happened again with Linux build 2002031008.

This time there were several tabs still open (about 5). I closed one of them
with Ctrl-W and scrolled down with the mouse wheel, then the browser crashed.

Comment 6

[FZiegler]

Still happening?

This looks like it could be a dupe of bug 120863, which has just been fixed.

Comment 7

[Tarmo Järvalt]

OS:               Windows 2000 Pro SP2
Nightly build:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020330
Mouse:            Logitech M-S48a (3 button PS2 wheel mouse)
Driver provider:  Microsoft
Driver Date:      14.11.1999
Driver Version:   5.0.2183.1

URL: http://epguides.com/dilbert/guide.shtml

Scrolling mouse wheel when page is still loading crashes Mozilla.

Letting it load and then scrollin doesn't crash it.

Anyone else can get it to crash?

Comment 8

[Tarmo Järvalt]

OS:               Windows 2000 Pro SP2
Nightly build:    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)
Gecko/20020330
Mouse:            Logitech M-S48a (3 button PS2 wheel mouse)
Driver provider:  Microsoft
Driver Date:      14.11.1999
Driver Version:   5.0.2183.1

URL: http://epguides.com/dilbert/guide.shtml

Scrolling mouse wheel when page is still loading crashes Mozilla.

Letting it load and then scrollin doesn't crash it.

Anyone else can get it to crash?

Comment 9

[Andrew Schultz]

Tarmo: yes, but what you're seeing happens even if you scroll without the
mousewheel and is not related to tabbed browser, therefore not related to this
bug.  I've filed bug 134508 for this issue.

Alexander:  can you grab a nightly build and try to reproduce this?  It seems
there have been several bug that have been fixed that are related to what you're
seeing.

Comment 10

[Alexander Dietrich]

Yes, I'll grab a nightly build and see if it happens again.

Two unrelated things:

1) I didn't receive e-mail notification about any of the comments after #5,
despite having everything "on" in my e-mail preferences.

2) Is there any way to change my e-mail address, or do I have to create a new
account ? What if my old e-mail address becomes invalid ?

About reproducing this bug: does "reproduce" in the Mozilla world mean "see if
it still exists" or "force it to happen again" ?

Comment 11

[Andrew Schultz]

1) I dunno.
2) bug 23067.  looks like this will be available in the next release of Bugzilla.
Looks like creating a new account is necessary until then. :(

reproduce = force it to happen again

Comment 12

[Alexander Dietrich]

I haven't seen this crash in quite a while now (can't recall seeing it once
during RC1), so I think it's safe to assume that it was fixed at some point in
the past.

Comment 13

[FZiegler]

Most likely fixed with bug 120863.

Comment 14

[FZiegler]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 120863 ***