265180 - Crashes when attempt to view page is made

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[steve herfst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Firefox crashes when an attempt is made to load this URL.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox
2. Load URL
3. Crash firefox!

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes (not sure why)

Expected Results:  
Firefox should load the page and not crash

Comment 1

[steve herfst]

Further information, as the steps listed don't seem to cause the crash.

At the time, only www.osnews.com was loaded (no other tabs/windows open).

Originally, I loaded the URL (from OSNews) named "its clout is diminishing"
(near heading "These Days, Microsoft isn't so scary").

I opened the link using middle click to open it in a new tab.

The crash was reproducible 2 times so far...

I'm not sure how long this link will be available.

Comment 2

[Cornelius]

Just to make the article easier to find for anyone else testing,
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8612 is the osnews url for the story,
which will bring up the snippet where you can middle click on the "its clout is
diminishing" link mentioned by the reporter. I wasn't able to reproduce the
error, but I'm on a linux box.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041018 Firefox/1.0

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041107
Firefox/0.9.1+

I followed the recipe in comment 2 using Cmd-click to open in new tab, and there
was no crash. Of course, the page may have changed in the mean time.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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