266806 - The Mozilla Application Unexpectedly Quits or Hangs

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Bergsagel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040915
Build Identifier: OS X Suite Nightly from 10/29/04

While surfing, the browser will either hang or unexpectedly quit bringing up the
talkback reporter application. Once the browser unexpectedly quit (not hung or
frozen) halfway through the viewing of a Quicktime movie trailer. Another time
the browser unexpectedly quit (not hung or frozen) while I was reading an
article on a web page (with only text, no flash ads, etc.) and no tabs open.

Another time I clicked on a link and I got the Mac "spinning beach ball". I
launched the Activity Monitor and Mozilla was listed as hung. The suite nightly
from 10/29/04 is Very unstable. Tis nightly also did something to my profile or
OS since reverting to an earlier stable nightly crashed. I had to restart the
computer and replace my profile with a recently backed up copy.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I apologise for not having a good test case to show this bug other than to tell
you to simply use the 10/29 Mac suite nightly and you will experience this bug
withing 5 to 10+ minutes.

Actual Results:  
Browser quits or hangs.

Expected Results:  
.

Is this bug related to the fix for the Mac only bug 264235 "context menus broken"?

Comment 1

[John T]

Several different bugs and regressions cropped up in 1.8. I'm wondering if there
are some undercover guys from competing software enterprises deliberately
contributing bad code for 1.8.

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Paul, are you still experiencing this? Could you provide a Talkback ID?

Comment 3

[Paul Bergsagel]

I have quit using nightly builds around October 29th, 2004. This nightly was
particularly naststy and unstable. I believe it was the cause of some
instability in  Mac OS (10.3.5). This nightly messed with my Mozilla profile. I
have completely given up on the Mac Suite nightlies since I have heard from
other users how horribly unstable and unusable they are.

For this reason I do not know if this instability is still happening. I would
test a recent nightly, but the last time I did I spent a whole evening working
to restore my computer to a stable condition and get any version of Mozilla to
launch without crashing. 

I hope some else can tell you if recent Mac Nightlies run reliably again. I wish
I could honor your request, but since I do not know if the nightlies since Oct
29th have improved in stability I am too afraid of what Mozilla might do to my
OS to risk testing a nightly Mozilla. I am waiting until there are reports that
the Mac nightlies are stable agiain before testing newer Mozilla nightlies.

So I am sticking with the last mozillia nightly I know to be stable 1.8a4
(2004081708).

Comment 4

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

I've always used the nightlies :)

I'm currently on a 041123 nightly (Mac OS 10.3.6) and I don't feel it's
unstable. It's probably better to close this as wfm, and open a new bug if the
problem occurs again.

--> wfm