272807 - When installing custom theme (probably with errors) Firefox crashes.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Tyler Bannister]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I'm trying to create a new theme, however, when I try to install my theme
package Firefox often crashes.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new theme with errors in rdf
2. Try to install
3. If it didn't crash, click use theme

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should give an error explaning what is wrong: malformed contents.rdf,
malformed install.rdf, no match between contents.rdf and install.rdf, etc...

I have "Install New Theme 0.3" extension installed.
Error:    32-bit Windows exception

Talkback crash IDs:
TB2296016Q, TB2293665H, TB2293338W, TB2292697W

Comment 1

[Tyler Bannister]

Theme file is too big to attach: I'm temporarily hosting it here:
http://www.thevlc.com/test/vlc.jar

Comment 2

[Gary van der Merwe]

Sorry about the changes - Meant for another bug

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Oh. Crashy thing.
All the talkbacks are different crashes, after different actions.

Comment 4

[timeless]

i'm going to file a new bug for *each* of the distinct crashes, as i see them. i
request that no one else file bugs relating to this until i finish.

Comment 5

[timeless]

this could be heap corruption. i'm done filing bugs.

Comment 6

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

Ben:  I remember talking with you about checking themes/extensions at install
time  to make sure they are valid and prevent crash bugs.  Are you already
working on that?  Perhaps we can just mark this a dup or dependant on that.

Comment 7

[Tyler Bannister]

I just upgraded to Firefox 1.0.1 and this still occurs.
Talkback Crash Id: TB4084882H

Comment 8

[timeless]

that matches bug 272879, please try using talkback-public to look up your own
stacks:

http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=TB4084882H

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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