190385 - unrepeatable, but consistent mozilla crashes on XP with S3 graphics card

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 119693

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Marc Bejarano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

i have no idea what is causing mozilla to crash, but it is becoming unbearable.
 i started using 1.3a shortly after it was released.  all was well until 1/12. 
i'll check my windows update history once M$ lets me (i recently installed yet
another critical patch, so the "View installation history" option at
windowsupdate.com is grayed out until i reboot).  my guess is that this may have
been around the time i updated my video driver.  i'm using the WHQL-certified
WU-provided "S3 Graphics Savage/IX 1014" driver dated 11/28/02 version
6.13.10.7048 under XP pro on my stinkpad T21.

mozilla seems to crash randomly.  i can't deduce a pattern, but it seems to
happen most often when i click a link and then rapidly alt-tab my way to another
window.  i've submitted TB's for a bunch of these crashes:
TB16093065X
TB16142321Q
TB16147383H
TB16180211G
TB16498617W

i'd love to get to the bottom of this!  let me know if there is anything i can
do to halp.  i am not a programmer :(

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. fire up Moz 1.3a on my computer
2. use it happily for a while.  lots of open windows, tabbed browsing, etc.
3. watch it crash randomly, taking away possibly weeks of state :(
4. whine to the programmers in hopes that they can return your life to normalcy ;)
Actual Results:  
your life sucks

Expected Results:  
your life doesn't suck

Comment 1

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PR_EnterMonitor [prmon.c, line 93]
PL_ProcessPendingEvents [c:/builds/seamonkey/mozilla/xpcom/threads/plevent.c,
line 553]
USER32.dll + 0x27ad7 (0x77d67ad7)
0x5e204689

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119693 ***