258845 - browser reproducibly crashes on a certain website

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Mikko Häkkinen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

My browser reproducibly crashes (tried 5 times) on the http://irc-galleria.net/
website. I was using Mozilla 1.7 when the bug occured, updated it to 1.7.2 and
the bug still remains with same results. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I have also
tried restarting which doesn't help. I haven't tried nightly builds.

The bug doesn't exist on Firebird (various versions), on IE (6), or on system
with Mozilla older than 1.7 and no XP SP2.

This is a bit problematic bug to verify because you have to register to the
website to be able to reproduce this. However, if you use IRC, you're entitled
to do so. You also can lie. :)

Reproduction process:
1. Log in under "Kirjautuminen" in the top left corner.
2. Search (nick) under "Haku" in the top right corner. Try "foo" for example.
3. Press brower's back button.
4. While loading the main page again the browser crashes.

Noticed things:
This doesn't work if you're not logged in. You have to use search. I'm unsure if
the search has to be successfull or does it happen when there are multiple
search results. You also have to search - otherwise returning to the main page
causes no problems.

P.S. I really am sorry if this bug has already been reported. This isn't easy
case to be searched from the bug database.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
From the above:
1. Log in under "Kirjautuminen" in the top left corner.
2. Search (nick) under "Haku" in the top right corner. Try "foo" for example.
3. Press brower's back button.
Actual Results:  
From the above:
4. While loading the main page again the browser crashes.

Expected Results:  
The browser should have loaded the main page properly.

Comment 1

[Bernd]

can you provide a talkback ID from the crash?

Comment 2

[Mikko Häkkinen]

I definitely would like to, but where do you find one?

If you need registration instructions to the site, please drop me an email.

Comment 3

[Ronald Tilby]

This is probably a dup of one of the following Mozilla bugs:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103975
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255933
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87842

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> I definitely would like to, but where do you find one?

Assuming you submitted the talkback report, just run components\talkback.exe and
you can read off the incident number.

Comment 5

[Mikko Häkkinen]

Talkback ID is TB779972Z

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Unfortunately that doesn't show symbols....  See
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=TB779972Z

Comment 7

[Mikko Häkkinen]

Another talkback id: TB806945H. My connention to the talkback-public.mozilla.org
is being refused so I can't verify it. :/

But this can be interesting information.

It seems that the browser doesn't seem crash if my network is lagging. This
could mean that the bug is somehow related to the ability to handle large
amounts of data quickly. Another clue is, that it can be related to loading
images, and perhaps also quickly comparing them to images in cache. This is what
I suppose because the images of the page I'm trying to load didn't load when it
was lagging - or they loaded very slowly.

Of course it's possible that it's my entire system which is being buggy, but I
doubt it because I updated my browser as I told in the previous messages.

Comment 8

[Adam Hauner]

Mikko Häkkinen: Are you still able to reproduce this bug with Mozilla Suite
1.7.6 or actual nightbuild?

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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