268728 - Immediate crash when trying to access network drive paths

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[wbayer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Selecting File, Open File, Look in displays a list of network drives. Selecting
anything other than the C: drive results in an immediate crash of Mozilla
Firefox 1.0. I disabled the Spellbound 0.60 extension in case this was contributing.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Selecting File, Open File, Look in
2. Choose any shared network drive
3. Instant death.

Actual Results:  
the browser crashes instantly, withour even a talkback report.

Expected Results:  
Dispayed the folders on the network drive.

Comment 1

[wbayer]

Correction, not all shared network drives trigger this Firefox 1.0 crash. Some
shared drives do exhibit the expected behaviour and display their folders in the
"Open File" window. 

It is not immediately apparent why some shared drives consistently cause this
crash, while others behave normally. This is definitely not a file permissions
issue as Windows explorer and other applications display and allow write access
to the same shared drives causing Firefox 1.0 to crash.

Comment 2

[Kai Baku]

This can be repeated and it happens when you try to import a security
certificate to trust a root certification authority.

Steps to repeat this for importing a certificate:
1.) Go to Options.
2.) Go to advanced settings.
3.) Go to manage root certificates.
4.) Go to the root CA certificates tab and click import.
5.) Then go to "My Network"
6.) Click on "View entire network"
7.) Click on "Microsoft Windows Network"
8.) Click on the domain/workgroup of your network where the computer with the
security certificate is part of.
9.) Click on the computer that has the network share of the security certificate.
10.) Access the network share and try to open the file which has the security
certificate. Firefox crashes and talkback is given.

Expected Result:
Open the CA certificate file and present a prompt to specify trust of certificate.

Actual Result:
Firefox crashes.

I am currently running Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition.
This occurs whether I am running as restricted user or administrator.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; ja-JP; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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