273259 - Firefox 1.0 crashes at the BBC World home page http://www.bbcworld.com

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Kathleen Callaway]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Every time I attempt to open the url
http://www.bbcworld.com
OR
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_home.asp?pageid=1
either from the location bar OR from bookmarks,
Firefox 1.0 (downloaded and installed today, Sunday 5 December 2004) crashes
with no warning, no error message, and no core dump that I can find. 

I am running Firefox 1.0 on GNU/Linux Red Hat 8, standard Dell Precision
hardware with Intel 86.

Crash occurs repeatably when I attempt to launch Firefox from Gnome Panel icon.
Crash occurs repeatably when I attempt to launch Firefox from the command in the
installation directory (e.g., /usr/local/Firefox1.0/firefox).

Crash does NOT occur with Mozilla 1.5 on the same platform.
[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007]

Crash does NOT occur with Netscape 7.02 on the same platform.
[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02]

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox
2. Direct it to the url htpp://www.bbcworld.com
3.

Actual Results:  
Firefox disappeared from the screen.

In fact, all instances of Firefox will crash simulataneously if one instance is
directed to that url. I mean, as I first attempted to file this bug report, I
had one instance of Firefox pointed to the bug report tutorial, and I attempted
to launch Firefox as a second instance from the command line, to verify that the
crash was not a side-effect of the Gnome Panel icon interface, and by golly,
both instances of Firefox disappeared from the screen, along with my
half-completed bug report. (Yep, I searched for the first half-completed bug
report among "bugs reported today" before I started this second attempt.)

Expected Results:  
It should display the BBC World home page as Mozilla 1.5 and Netscape 7 do. (I
know: BBC web pages are embarassingly Microsoft-centric, but I do look at their
schedule every week with Netscape or Mozilla.)

I did not find a Talkback crash ID. Where should I look for it?

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

What Java plug-in do you use (JRE) ? Upgrade to Sun's JRE 1.5 and report back if
still crashing or not.
Check using about:plugins in both Mozilla 1.5, Firefox, etc. you may have
multiple  JRE on your filesystem.

Comment 2

[timeless]

run components/talkback

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041206
Firefox/1.0+

Java Plug-in

    File name: Java Applet.plugin
    Java 1.3.1 Plug-in

WFM

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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