258912 - Java Applet Implementation Crashes in Yahoo Games (Specifically Backgammon)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Java APIs for DOM, defect)

Description

[John]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

This has happened three times today and has never happened with IE.  And by the
way--I lost a game because of it Grrrrr.

You'll have to play for a while but then the applet will just lock up.  After a
couple of minutes the applet vanishes.  Sorry, but that's all I have for you. 
URL to play the games is http://games.yahoo.com

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Above
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Above

Expected Results:  
Not locked up--continue play.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

This sounds like it might be a dup of bug 244538?

Comment 2

[James "Dexter" Akula]

I have the same problem on multiple machines, running varous flavors of Java
(1.4.x or 1.5) on WinXP and Win2K.  Backgammon crashes every single time I exit
it.  Other games will crash sometimes, too, but backgammon seems to be the
worst.  I'm using Firefox 1.0.  Haven't ever had a problem in Mozilla 1.x or
Netscape 7.x (not to mention IE).

Comment 3

[Martin Strobl]

Also happens on Firefox 1.0 and 1.0.1, I get this same problem very often at
Yahoo Chess. The games will load and work well, but after a while the whole
browser, including any tabs and however many different windows of it may be
open, will crash.

With version 1.0 I used to get a question on whether I want to send a error
report to Microsoft, with version 1.0.1 the browser and its windows will just
quietly cease to be there and vanish.

If you need any help in testing if this bug will vanish with a test version I
will be happy to help out, because I like to play a game of chess in the
evening. :-)

Comment 4

[shaneeae]

It also happens with Firefox 1.0.2 in Windows 2000 and is not restricted to
Yahoo Games.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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