248090 - If Adblock is enabled, http://www.mg.co.za causes Firefox 0.9 to crash.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Farrel Lifson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

I have Adblock running on my FireFox 0.9 install. I have the following sites
blocked:
bonzi.com
doubleclick.net
falkag.net
valueclick.com
adserver.com

If I go to www.mg.co.za (Online Mail & Gaurdian) Firefox crashes. In the error
details dialog the modname is unknown and the offest is 0000000.

If Adblock is disabled the page loads fine.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable Adblock
2. Go to http://www.mg.co.za


Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes.

Expected Results:  
Load the page.

I am using the PlastiFox theme. The crash happens with the default theme. I only
have the default DOM inspector extension running.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

A crash caused by an extension should be reported to the extension's author, not
as a Firefox bug.

Comment 2

[Bernard Alleysson]

(In reply to comment #1)
> A crash caused by an extension should be reported to the extension's author, not
> as a Firefox bug.

hmmm, it is a Firefox crash, and Firefox should be stable enough to allow any
extension, how bad it is written.

Comment 3

[Ken Johanson]

> 
> hmmm, it is a Firefox crash, and Firefox should be stable enough to allow any
> extension, how bad it is written.
> 

I have to agree - clearly chrome, etc is not catching a critical error. In this
case the problem seems related to version incompatibilities, which will always
come into existence (as in this case where something in Firefox *and* Mozilla
recently changed) and the end-user must have a meaningful, incompatibility
message presented to them. 

Possibly related to bug# 224688 and comments there.