187538 - Crash when trying to load html files

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Anton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01
Build Identifier: Any

Any recent version of Mozilla (1.1 - 1.3 alpha), when trying to open an html
document, mozilla hangs and never displays the page (or opens up the browser,
just the splash screen).  After the first execution (after installation), it
loads up my homepage (aol.com) 75% of the time. This seems to only be on my
machine (HP Notebook XE3 running WinXP).  Java is installed.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.double click on an html document
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
mozilla splash screen appears and does not disappear. browser does not appear. 

Expected Results:  
displayed the page

this all started when I was developing a java implemented webpage with mozilla
composer.  After attempting to view the source code, to no avail, the program
seemed to freeze on the 'preview' option.  I restarted my computer and from that
point on, no matter what version i install, the problem persists.  Might be my
computer, but it still should be addressed.

Comment 1

[Anton]

Noticed that if Mozilla is open, it won't bring up a new window.  Must be
force-quitted, and then it functions as normal for that one window.  After that,
it must be force quitted to open a new window/file.   

Comment 2

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

Reporter could you please try the following:

* please create a new profile in mozilla.
* please try a more recent build like 1.4a or a newer nightly
* provide us with more detalied description of which html pages that load and 
which doesn't. 
* if you can reproduce it with one or more specifc files, please attach one of 
them to the bugreport as a testcase

Comment 3

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

no response from reporter, marking wfm per my own comment #2