263383 - Going to the selected URL crashes Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mikko Hänninen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040928 Firefox/0.9.3

When I go first to the http://www.universalmusic.fi/tiktak/YaBB/YaBB.pl website
(it's a web forum) and click on the "Kirjaudu" (login) link, which points to the
URL http://www.universalmusic.fi/tiktak/YaBB/YaBB.pl?action=login , Firefox
crashes. The UI stops responding and there is no window refresh. The only way is
to kill the process (with ctrl-C or kill). This happens to me every time.

For what it's worth, using Mozilla 1.7 things work just fine with the site.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.universalmusic.fi/tiktak/YaBB/YaBB.pl
2. Click on the "Kirjaudu" link

Actual Results:  
The UI freezes.

Expected Results:  
To be able to see the login page.

I am using Debian unstable, the currently installed package is mozilla-firefox
0.9.3-6. However this problem has been persistent for a several months during
which there have been several updates with new Firefox packages, the behaviour
has remained the same always.

I do have two cookies set by the site, with the web board's username and
password stored there. I don't know if these affect the problem.

Comment 1

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

WFM on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007
Firefox/0.10

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

unable to reproduce with the latest branch linux build.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041010
Firefox/0.9.1+

WFM