224330 - Hang when going to certain ESPN pages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Casey Bennett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Certain pages from ESPN (example:
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1650890 ) cause Mozilla 1.5 to hang.
I did not notice this is 1.4.x. It works fine in IE, and the ESPN home page (
http://www.espn.com ) does not hang, either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to various ESPN pages, such as
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1650890


Actual Results:  
Mozilla froze. I had to use Ctrl+Alt+Del to close it.

Expected Results:  
Displayed the page correctly, without hanging.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031028
Shockwave Flash 7.0 r14

was looking like a dupe of bug 210334, but that one ws a dupe of bug 210119,
fixed on trunk 2003-06-22 22:53, but your Mozilla is from 2003-10-07.

Is this bug reproducable, i.e. do you always get a hang when going to
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1650890

I´ve seen bugs like this, buggy, if a flash ad was shown, and working, if a gif
was shown, so maybe it depends on a certain ad, or a certain plugin.
Which version of flash is installed? (Help->About Plug-ins)?

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

wfm Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
with flashad and flashmenues

Comment 3

[Casey Bennett]

Re: Hermann Schwab  2003-10-31 16:47

Yes, Mozilla does always hang on that ESPN page, plus a couple others that I
can't recall. I have the latest version of Flash, v7.0.14.

Comment 4

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

WFM on WinXP trunk 2003102804.

Comment 5

[Matthew Elvey]

WFM  1.5 on XP = tester's platform.

Casey: no it doesn't, or me, Hermann and Vidar are wrong.