254616 - http://www.ninemsn.com.au and outdated Java JREs causes Mozilla to hog CPU at 98%

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Jim diGriz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 MultiZilla/1.6.3.3a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 MultiZilla/1.6.3.3a Mnenhy/0.6.0.101

Similar bugs have been reported on the Linux platform
Bug 222879 and Bug 100637.
In each case the fix was to upgrade to the latest JRE for the affected platform
In this case the problem was solved with the JRE from v1.5.0

I *think* ninemsn has a tendency to build their java applets with bleeding edge
SDKs causing older JREs to go pear shaped.

I'm posting this bug so that people seaching Bugzilla can find this, but perhaps
this should better be put under Tech Evangelism.

Comments?


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.ninemsn.com.au/
2. Page starts to load, then Mozilla (all windows) becomes unresponsive
   and starts hogging the CPU at > 90%

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

I didn´t see Java on this page. Applet fphover() is known to be crashing Mozilla
with JRE 1.3, but fphover is Microsoft java, Frontpage specific...

I don´t think that this website is on the bleeding edge of Java, it´s MSN.
I don´t like 90% of the Java ocurrences on webpages, same goes for flash.
But both are indispensible for the other 10% of applications.

I´ve installed Java, mostly the most modern version, for testing bugzilla bugs,
My experience is, that starting with 1.4, crashes rarely happened, and most
could be resolved by installing a newer one.
Microsoft should be forbidden to apply Java to any of their products.

current stable version is 1.4_05
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

a 1.5beta2 is available at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

 

Comment 2

[Jim diGriz]

> current stable version is 1.4_05
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

I was actually using this. I had to update to the latest beta:

> a 1.5beta2 is available at
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

before this page would load.  Do you know anybody that can talk to ninemsm and
convince them to use standards compliant Java?

JdG

 

Comment 3

[Hermann Schwab]

I´m resolving this bug as worksforme, as the reporter got it working by not
using the latest stable version of Java, but installing a current beta.

(In reply to comment #2)

>  Do you know anybody that can talk to ninemsm and
> convince them to use standards compliant Java?

No, I don´t. It would also be a great help if you could post a URL were Java is
seen. In case of java or flash, it could be related to changing ads,
if the currently served ad contains flash (or java), it crashes, if the ad is
plain html with images, it doesn´t crash. That´s nearly impossible to analyze,
if you don´t have a second, non-crashing browser. I´m using Opera for this.
If opera also crashes, it is either the applet, or the site, which are broken.
Otherwise, it could be a mozilla bug ;-)
If you want to look at the source code of a crashing page, you can load it, if
you prefix the URL with view-source:
Example:
view-source:http://www.ninemsn.com.au/