191003 - When installing flash player, CPU usage goes to 100% and mozilla quits running.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Jarrod Hammack]

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

When installing flash player, CPU usage goes to 100% and mozilla quits running.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Mozilla
2. Go to a page with flash.
3. Download the flash installer.
4. Run flash installer
5. Mozilla quits and CPU usage goes to 100%
Actual Results:  
Mozilla quits and CPU usage goes to 100%

Expected Results:  
Finished the installation and restarted.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

not installer

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

can you paste a link to the installer you used?
which process does task manager show taking 100% cpu?

Comment 3

[Marcin Gryszkalis]

confirmed
works like that:

1. start mozilla
2. start flash installer (latest flashplayer6installer.exe)
3. cpu reaches 100% (is about 60-40 between mozilla and installer)
4. mozilla restarts 
5. cpu still 100% (one on mozilla processes), macromedia's page opens
6. close all windows keeps the naughty process working (have to kill manually)

Comment 4

[Jayant Sai]

w.r.t this bug, I see the same problem on 1.2.1, when Mozilla pops-up after the
flash install is completed. But after killing the process using the task manager
(Windows 2000 Pro), the same problem does not occur when I try to open Mozilla.

When trying with 1.3b, Gecko/20030210, the Flash installer downloaded and I ran
it. But after the install, the browser did not pop-up. And even when I tried
opening Mozilla, there were no problems.

Comment 5

[Peter Lubczynski]

Flash may be switching to an XPI installer.

Comment 6

[marv howse]

i've tried this install on two machines running win98, mozilla 1.5, athlon750
and 850, ATI vivo in both, 512megs ram, multiple HD larger than 40Gig, CDRW X2
and scsi in one only. mozilla works fine until run flash player installer,
installer tries to open macromedia web page but locked up, need reboot by reset
to get system usable.

Comment 7

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 195918 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM  Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/2007061802 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

flash 9,0,45 and 9,0,60