181362 - Browser crashes on starting to load this url.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 179822

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[crawdad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021120
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021120

Browser crashes on starting to load this url.
Using latest build
(
Mozilla 1.3a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021120
)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load frontpage.com
2. see browser crash
3. weep

Actual Results:  
Browser crashed

Expected Results:  
Browser should have loaded page in staed of crashing.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What version of flash are you using?  

Comment 2

[crawdad]

AboutPlugins reports:
    File name: npswf32.dll
    Shockwave Flash 5.0 r41

When I tried to go to www.macromedia.com to see if this was out of date, Mozilla
crashed again! Hmm! This may in fact be the trouble, but...
if I can't get to the macromedia site, I dunno how I'll update the
flash-plugin... :(

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

.

Comment 4

[crawdad]

Update:
I found and renamed the "npswf32.dll" file.
This allowed me to go to www.macromedia.com and download an updated flash-plugin.
This fixed my immediate problem of crashing when I visit frontpagemag.com and
macromedia.com.

The fact that Moz crashes this way is a problem, though.
Telling the average user to zap his plugin will not be acceptable...
There should be a way to switch on/off individual plugins in the interface...
There should also be a way to block ".swf" just as there is for images... esp
since many ads are now swf's...

This is still a real bug...

Comment 5

[Peter Lubczynski]

Flash 5 is crashing because Mozilla has recently started being compiled with
-DUNICODE. Either pick an older build, make one yourself with the flag off, or
get the Flash 6 that comes with Netscape 7:

ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.0/windows/win32/ewc9e/flash.xpi

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 179822 ***

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

v.