184217 - JavaScript hang when entering page

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Jani Patokallio]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Entering www.huuto.net (Finland's version of EBay, a very popular site) with
JavaScript turned on causes Mozilla to hang completely.  If JavaScript is turned
off, there are no problems and the page renders fine.

The site worked fine until yesterday, so there seems to have been a recent
change to the page (and no, I haven't tweaked my Moz in the meantime...)
All other JavaScript sites I can find seem to work fine, including 
MauveCloud's test suite at http://www.mauvecloud.net/jscore/.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.huuto.net (or load the attached HTML file).


Actual Results:  
Page clears and half the banner up top is rendered.  Mozilla then hangs,
becoming completely unresponsive to any input and unable to refresh.  CPU usage
remains at 0%, so odds are this is a deadlock.


Expected Results:  
Shown the page.

Since the site in question is dynamic, I've attached a snapshot that verifiably
also causes Mozilla to crash.

Comment 1

[Jani Patokallio]

Attachment: A snapshot of the home page of www.huuto.net

Causes Mozilla to hang if JavaScript is turned on.

Comment 2

[Jani Patokallio]

...and, of course, the instant I submit this to Mozilla the bug stops showing
up, even for the snapshot.  The bug seems thus not be in the JavaScript, but in
the banners loaded by said script -- I'll try to figure out the offender, but
for time being ignore this.

Comment 3

[Jani Patokallio]

Now I'm getting the same symptoms for www.doubleclick.net.  Here's hoping
this one sticks around long enough for someone else to reproduce it.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

you are probably seeing bug 58339.  what version of flash do you have?  are you
playing audio in the background?

Comment 5

[Jani Patokallio]

A-ha!  I had one of the Flash versions noted in 58339; I upgraded to Flash 6
Beta and now everything works just dandy.  Consider the bug solved -- thanks!

Comment 6

[Olivier Cahagne]

Marking WFM as per reporter comments.

Comment 7

[Phil Schwartau]

Marking Verified -