207540 - One more clue in this mystery: only crash in tabs, not with new window

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[henning petersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

I have been so annoyed by this build that I stopped using Mozilla for a while
since it crashes all the time. Has to do with opening sites in tabs, perhaps
because I use the (3-button) mouse middle button.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open mozilla
2. Open more and more sites with clicks on the middle mouse button on links;
opens them in tabs
3. Repeat until crash 

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
just work 

File->Preferences->Tabbed browsing settings (all notches are selected):

[X] Hide the tab when only one tab is open
[X] Load links in the background
[X] Middle-click, control-click or control-enter on links in a web page
[X] Control-enter in the location bar

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

please provide a talkback ID from a crash.

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Do you use extensions?
Would you like to test Mozilla 1.4 ReleaseCandidate 1?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4rc1/

Comment 3

[henning petersen]

Ok this is really something; I have had probably 100 crashes with Mozilla 1.3
alfa,beta, 1.4rc1 and now with 1.4rc2. And now I have an idea of what goes on.

The themes 'NauiPolis 1.0' (which by the way is really nice) makes Mozilla
crash. It happens only when using tabs, for instance I always get a crash when I
open 1 or more tabs, no matter if I have other windows open or not (this is on
win98). Sometimes the crash comes with the first tab, other times I can do a
little surfing before it happens, but it really is consistant.

I have also added this under the theme, see the comments under 
http://themes.mozdev.org/themes/nautipolis.html

I have a whole range of crash talkback id; at least these are believered to be
due to the above reason:

TB21154638X
TB21154089K
TB21154059W

By the way, you really should make a FAQ or something teaching how to report
talkback id's, it's not obvious that you have to start talkback.exe to find the
id's. At least on my machine, talkback is neither in the 'start->mozilla' menu.
I have to remark I haven't been through readme's etc.

Now, whoever owns the code for 'talkback' should integrate the talkback id list
in there.

Comment 4

[Alfred Kayser]

One thing that could be the cause is the removal of .mng support.
Nautipolis 1.0 uses a .mng (chrome://global/skin/tab/loading.mng)
as the animated icon for tabs being loaded.

However, since a couple of days (weeks?) MNG support has been removed
from Mozilla.

Therefor a new version of NautiPolis is available: 1.4, where
the .mng's are replaced by .gif's (unfortunelately).

So, please test this problem with the latest NautiPolis theme available
at the usual locations.

Thanks in advance, Alfred

Comment 5

[henning petersen]

Yes! It does work now. Thanks (Yes I terminated my first Bugzilla bug :-) 

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

FIXED is for bugs that were fixed by code patches

Comment 7

[Andrew Schultz]

this is INVALID - not a Mozilla bug

Comment 8

[henning petersen]

*** Bug 207169 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***