240430 - Crashes upon loading of page.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[adolphe_youssef]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Mozilla 1.6 renders page without errors or crashes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter http://auto.howstuffworks.com/wiper.htm into location the box and click
enter.
2. Select "Next Page" link to http://auto.howstuffworks.com/wiper1.htm.

Actual Results:  
Phoenix crashes.

Expected Results:  
Render the page normally.

Comment 1

[adolphe_youssef]

Attachment: Dr. Watson log file.

Dr Watson log file generated after several attempts to load the page.

Comment 2

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040411
Firefox/0.8

You might need to update your macromedia flash plugin.
Here is how to check
type about:plugins into the URL bar look for the flash plugin and note the version 
http://macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
7.0.19.0 is the current version

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Works for me using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040412 Firefox/0.8.0+

Please try installing into a new directory and creating a new profile, using the
Firefox.exe -p switch, and report your results here

Comment 4

[adolphe_youssef]

Removed Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206
Firefox/0.8 as well as all extensions.  Re-installed Firefox 0.8 as requested
and re-installed Shockwave Flash 7.0 r19 and page loaded without crashing.

Re-installed FlashBlock extension http://flashblock.mozdev.org/index.html and
was able to reproduce crash.

Please forward to FlashBlock developers.

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan]

Set bug to invalid because this is due to an extension (flashblock).

Comment 6

[Ted]

Please reopen this bug!!

This is definately a bug in Mozilla and Firefox and not Flashblock.  I did a bit
of messing around with it and think I understand what might be wrong.  The page:
 http://auto.howstuffworks.com/wiper.htm uses a css file with an invalid MIME type.
The exact error is:  Warning:  The stylesheet
http://www.howstuffworks.com/style/channel.php?ch_col=%23990000 was loaded as
CSS even though its MIME type, "application/x-httpd-php", is not "text/css".

The flashblock extension works by using a modified the userContent.css file in
order to change how the content is displayed.  I actually can take all the
source code out of the flashblock extension but leave the hook to it in the
userContent.css file and Mozilla will still crash.

My guess is that Mozilla is taking the conflicting MIME types and not
translating something right then it proceeds to die....