130663 - Browser Hangs / Crashes when accessing certain URL's

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58339

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Matt Fago]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020310
BuildID:    2002031008

When I access certain web pages (such as the one given) mozilla becomes
completely unresponsive, and must be killed.

This happens to me approx 5 times a day -- very irritating. I have a feeling it
might be due to the JRE plugin?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Load Given URL
2.
3.

Actual Results:  Browser hangs after some of the page has rendered and must be
killed

Expected Results:  No crash.

Using JRE 1.3.0_01

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

the only situation i know this happens in is with flash and a busy /dev/dsp
Do you have flash installed? Are you listening to music when this happens?
(via xmms or other..)

Comment 2

[Matt Fago]

Yes, I have Flash installed, but no, I am not listening to music.

If I remove the Flash plugin everything is fine (except no flash).

Is this a duplicate of bug 58937?

I am NOT running X remotely, but I do have the Moz window resized very 
large.

Is this going to get fixed for 1.0?!

Comment 3

[R.K.Aa.]

no, i think it's a duplicate of bug 58339.

Which sound-chip and desktop environment are you running?
Which sound daemon?

Comment 4

[Matt Fago]

I am running the latest release of ALSA with snd-cs461x (Sound Fusion cs461x).
This is on an IBM ThinkPad T20.

The desktop environment is KDE 2.2.2

I am not playing audio, and I don't think that the Flash animation is trying to
either.

Looking at the given URL in MacOS IE, the page plays a full-page splash ad
(without sound) before loading the article.

The page loads fine in Konqueror (without the splash ad at all).

Something is obviously broken with the flash plugin, but I'm not sure it is
related to sound.

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

If your sound server is kde2.2's artsd: Try starting mozilla with something like

artsdsp mozilla

If that works: see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58339#c119
for a "permanent workaround" based on that.

If your sound server is artsd and workaround above does NOT work: Try esd - the
"enlightenment sound daemon" used by Gnome. Distributed as a separate package.
Flashplayer seems to be esd-aware.

Comment 6

[Matt Fago]

Runing as: "artsdsp mozilla" does resolve the issue. However, instead of
crashing the browser I get the error:

"mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding"

Does this signify a bug in flash that mcop is simply handling more gracefully
than Mozilla does?

For now, I'm still removing the Flash plugin. There is STILL a bug here, and I
hope it gets resolved for 1.0. Even if the bug is in the Flash plugin, I would
hope it couldn't bomb the entire browser.

Nevertheless, you've convinced me this is a duplicate of bug 58339.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58339 ***

Comment 7

[Paul Wyskoczka]

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