182656 - Crash when displaying page with java-script enabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Stefan Neef]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

Crashes instantly after having rendered http://www.arstechnica.com only if
java-script enabled. If jave-script disabled, page displays just fine.

Reproducible on http://www.arstechnica.com, http://www.tomshardware.com

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open http://www.arstechnica.com with java-script enabled
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Crash, exit-code 11


SuSE, Kernel 2.4.18-dxs.
Will not be able to trace bug using Talkback, since University prohibits saving
executables, sorry...

Comment 1

[Phil Schwartau]

This is not likely to be a JS Engine crash. I would normally assign
this to Browser-General until we can get a stack trace, but I notice
that both sites listed above contain Flash plug-ins:

               http://www.arstechnica.com
               http://www.tomshardware.com

So let me assign this to the Plug-ins component for now. As for me,
I cannot crash on either site above using Flash 5.0 r47 on Linux,
or using Flash 6.0 r47 on WinNT. In each case, I am using Mozilla
trunk binaries from 2002-11-27.

NOTE: we have had big troubles with the 1.2 builds recently:
see bug 182500. I wonder if Stefan's crash is 1.2-specific. 


Stefan:

1. If you try a trunk build instead of 1.2, does the crash go away?
   If not, then:

2. In Mozilla, if you do Help > About Plug-ins, what version of 
   Flash does it say you are using?

3. Do you crash on any other sites that you know of which use
   Flash plug-ins?

Comment 2

[S M Lovell]

Stefan,

In [Edit]->Preferences->Navigator->Langauges->"Character Coding", is "Western
(ISO-8859-1)" selected?

I had the same problem with GNU/Linux and Win32 versions. With a different
character coding the page would load, but certain characters in the javascript
within the page would be invalid, crashing Mozilla.

Try it. It might work.

Stephen

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

wfm on linux and win xp. no crash. reporter, pls try what Mr SM Lowell has 
mentioned above and see if it works for u. thx !