172522 - Attempt to open this link causes (what looks like) a Null pointer dereference.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 128961

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Eric Towers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826

Windows reports an inappropriate access and (attempts to) terminates the browser
process.  However, the window remains.  All applications cannot subsequently be
launched.  If the Start menu is accessible (2 out of 3 tims in replicating the
problem) logging out fails because the Mozilla window is (UNIX usage) zombified.
 Similarly the machine cannot be Shut Down because the application (or at least
its wraithly UI shell) will not terminate.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch browser.
2. Type "www.microsoft.com/windows" into the location bar.
3. Select the link Resources|Downloads in the left bar menu (to
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/default.mspx )
4. Select "Windows 98" from the "Products" list.
5. Click on the "Windows 98 Downloads" on the blue arrow (pointing to the right).

Actual Results:  
6. Dismiss Windows "something broke" dialog.
7. Note persistent Mozilla window.
8. Note that there is no Mozilla on the Task List.
9. However, WinTop (Windows Kernel Toy, available through link above) and PView
both indicate that the process is still in the process table.


Expected Results:  
<option 1>
6. Browser rendered the page far more prettily than IE.

<option 2>
6. Browser failed to render the page, generating a "this page is broken" message.

<option 3>
6. Dismiss Windows "something broke" dialog.
7. Browser process terminates.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Which Graphic card Do you use ?

Comment 2

[Eric Towers]

Attachment: Windows registers dump and stack trace at failure point.

Comment 3

[Eric Towers]

Interference with shutting down Windows has been observed 2 of 4 times.

Comment 4

[Eric Towers]

Re: Matti - go away marquee

GeForce4 Ti 4600.
Currently using 29.42 (Detonator XP) nVidia reference drivers.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

short : "Matti" :-)

please update your drivers (v30.82 or later). 
This is bug in the nvidia drivers.

see the "bug nvidia" for the long story :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128961 ***