246083 - 1.7 RC3 browser crash as Ebay responds to 'show items' button

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Rick Stockton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

Might be related to bug 243366, but I provde precise steps to reproduce in a
fixed sequence every time. See "steps to reproduce the problem". It might be
related to Ebay's new appearance (they're sending something bad for the first
time), or it might simply be a latent Mozilla bug which I'm seeing for the first
time. I've never used this Ebay 'Pottery and China Finder' tool before. 

I am very sorry that I was confused by the in versus out appearance of the
on/off buttons for talkback. Talkback DID come up the first time, and I
accidentally disabled it. But where can I reset this back to 'ENABLED' ??? I
have re-installed mozilla AND searched my .mozilla directory. I don't see
anything in prefs.js to control talkback.

I see mozver.dat, with references to all of my long-gone old versions of quality
feedback (as well as the newest, =F$FeH¨FFó$Version1.7.334647162.10808589082F]F)
but this file seems way too scary for someone like me to edit.

How may I turn QFA back on?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://ebay.com

2. from the 'categories' on the left, scroll down and click the link to 
"Pottery and Glass"

3. Within the 'Top 10' list on the right, click the link to "Spode" (5th most
popular).

4. Now within the "Pottery and China Finder" to the left, enter "Spode" as the
'Maker', and enter "gold" (uncapitalized) as the only search keyword.

5. Press the "Show Items" button. 

Actual Results:  
Hard crash of Mozilla. My KDE desktop, Mandrake 10.0, appears to be unaffected.

Expected Results:  
The Ebay page should be displayed? Searching in a different way, I found about 5
items which matched both "Spode" and "gold".

Comment 1

[Rick Stockton]

Today, this procedure displays 8 items with no crash.

VERY unfortunate that I was not able to restore talkback and get you a stacktrace...

Comment 2

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

To enable talkback (qfa), go to your /bin/components/talkback dir and run
./talkback.  In the client UI, look in the Settings menu...you should be able to
select "Turn Agent On".  That should do it.  

Please post your Talkback ID as soon as you can run the Talkback client.  Thanks.

Comment 3

[Rick Stockton]

Thanks Jay, I've turned Talkback 'ON' per your instructions :)

Comment 4

[Adam Hauner]

Rick Stockton: Could you reproduce with Mozilla 1.7 final?

Comment 5

[Rick Stockton]

Never became reproducible, and 1.7 has had several Releases since the day of
this problem (with a Release Candidate). Let's close the bug.