246189 - Web site causes instability during rendering [@ libflashplayer.so ]

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(External Software Affecting Firefox Graveyard :: Flash (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Luke Ross]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040420 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040420 Firefox/0.8

Browsing this web site with FireFox 0.8 and Mozilla 1.6 causes both browsers to
become unstable. Typically, after a dozen pages, the browser quits unexpectedly.
I've gdb'd FireFox and it shows the problems as being a segmentation fault, but
provides no stacktrace. The steps to reproduce work for me usually on FireFox
0.8, but this is not the only way to get it to crash (in particular it is
crashable with only one tab), and may not work well under Mozilla. The point at
wich GDB suspends the process is when the flash banner has just been drawn in grey.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new blank tab
2. Navigate to URL
3. Close tab
4. Open a new blank tab
5. Navigate to URL

Actual Results:  
Browser quits unexpectedly with SEGV.

Expected Results:  
Displayed the URL

(gdb) c
Continuing.
[New Thread 71793584 (LWP 18989)]
[New Thread 93248432 (LWP 18990)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1085075328 (LWP 18982)]
0x0202d4b0 in ?? ()

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you try Firefox 0.9rc (or Mozilla 1.7rc3) and report Talkback ID if still
crashing ?

Comment 2

[Luke Ross]

Talkback IDs TB84750Z and TB84751X (FireFox 0.9rc). Note that I cannot reproduce
the problem without the Flash plugin (my plugin identifies itself in
about:plugins as "Shockwave Flash 6.0 r69"), so this is definitely some sort of
Flash or interaction issue.

Comment 3

[Olivier Cahagne]

does the crash go away with Flash 7.0r25 ?

Comment 4

[Luke Ross]

Ooops, appears to be stable with 7.0r25.

Comment 5

[Olivier Cahagne]

Good, one more crasher fixed in v.7 !