264718 - Firefox crash when selecting Get More Themes/Extensions if certain extensions are installed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 264683

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016 Firefox/1.0

I kind of hate to report this becuae I hate flaky bugs myself, but here goes. 
On one of the 2 windows/xp systems I have at home, the Firefox official October
16th branch build crashes if I have Weatherfox 0.5 and Switchproxy 1.3
installed.  The crash occurs if I do anything that forces a window to open from
the Options -> Themes or Options -> Extensions windows.  The crash occurs if I
either click on Get More Themes, Get More Extensions or if I try to go to a
theme or extension home page.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install the October 16th firefox nightly
2. Install Weatherfox 0.5 (you have to muck with verisons to do this of course)
3. Install Switchproxy 1.3 (once again version issues)
4. Go to Options -> Extensions
5. click on Get More Extensions

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashed

Expected Results:  
The window would open

Talkback ID's are TB1345958G and TB1345937Q.

The crsh does not aoccur with the October 15th nightly and does occur with a
Tinderbox build I downloaded later on the 15th.  Checkins between those times
which could have caused this regeression are:

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=AviaryBranchTinderbox&branch=AVIARY_1_0_20040515_BRANCH&branchtype=match&dir=&file=&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&hours=2&date=explicit&mindate=2004-10-15+04%3A00&maxdate=2004-10-15+18%3A00&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

Comment 1

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Setting request bolcking flag just to make sure this gets looked at before the
release just in case there is a simple fix.

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

William, FYI you haven't set the blocking request.
I'm unfamiliar with talkback, but stack traces of your two incidents don't look
good to me.

Comment 3

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Strange I thought I set it.  I am going to hold off on requesting this as a
blocker anyway until I test to see if the fix checked in for bug 264683 fixed
this.  The problem started occuring the same day as thr issue in that bug, and
other random crashes seemingly unrelated to the issues discussed in that bug
(including many Thunderbird crashes) were all cleared up by the same fix.

I just looked a the talkback trace to.  You are right, probably not much there
anyone can figure out.  I think the issue is that it crashed in one of the
extensions and not in the mainline code. :-(

Comment 4

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

This bug is no longer reproducable after the fix for bug 264683 was checked in.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 264683 ***