260920 - Browser crashes when paging down this page, using either space bar or scroll bar to page down.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[bko_bugs]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

When scrolling down the page at
http://www.hpcfactor.com/reviews/software/vnc-3-3-7/default.asp
the browser crashes when it gets part of the way down.  using the space bar or
the right side scroll bar does not seem to change the behavior, so I'm guessing
it's a layout issue.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to http://www.hpcfactor.com/reviews/software/vnc-3-3-7/default.asp
2.  Scroll down the page using the scroll bar or space bar.
3.  Crash.

Actual Results:  
Crash.

Expected Results:  
Not crashed.

Comment 1

[bko_bugs]

Works fine in 

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Comment 2

[bko_bugs]

OK on Firefox 1.0PR

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913
Firefox/0.10

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; @AB_CD@; rv:1.8a4)
Gecko/20040922 Firefox/0.9.1+

WFM

Comment 4

[Ng Ming Hong]

Works for me:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Comment 5

[tom wible]

every version of mozilla has crashed on scrolling random pages (varies based on
content, i imagine) but not firefox...wtf? i thought they shared a codebase... but
of course ff doesn't enable spacebar scrolling...rfa:-(

Comment 6

[tom wible]

now that i'm home, v1.8a4 doesn't crash on the given url, but appleinsider.com
just did (talkback incident #TB1141417M) as did macnn.com (TB1054876W &
TB1103361E) wired.com (TB1103776Z) 

Comment 7

[Ben Fowler]

Talkback incidents deleted: TB1141417M TB1054876W TB1103361E TB1103776Z

Comment 8

[Ben Fowler]

The original URL is 404. Suggest closing WORKSFORME

Comment 9

[Jamie Diamond]

Reporter, could you please upload another test URL so we can try to confirm this
bug? Also, more details would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comment 10

[David E. Ross]

I may have encountered another instance of this at
<URL:http://www.dot.ca.gov/traffic/>.  See TalkBack Incident ID #5950578.  

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

If this is a different problem, please let me know so that I can submit a new
bug report.  

Comment 11

[David E. Ross]

By the way, my crash (comment #10) is also reproducible.  

If my crash is indeed the same problem, then please change both Hardware and OS
to "ALL" from "Macintosh" and "MacOS X".  I crashed on a PC with Windows 98SE.  

Comment 12

[timeless]

[e-mail]: your crash is java related:
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=5950578
there has been no mention of java in this bug, so i'd lean toward a new bug. the
only java crashers i know of with vaguely similar skid marks are bug 264062 and
bug 292128.

Comment 13

[David E. Ross]

I have submitted new bug #294842.  

Comment 14

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

marking WFM per comment 1, 2, 3, 4
without those and a dead URL it would be invalid.