278322 - Crash on trying to see a javascript/DHTML demo

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dror Matalon]

When going to trying to http://javascript.cooldev.com/scripts/outlook/demos/ and
viewing one of the demos, for instance, "Browsers & Platforms" firefox crashes.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050113 Firefox/1.0+

WFM

tried all the bars available, no problems

Comment 2

[Dror Matalon]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041219 Firefox/1.0
(Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-1)

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

WFM as well with latest trunk, bug could have been fixed since 1.0

Comment 4

[Dror Matalon]

Looks like this might be Linux specific. I tested it both with the Debian
package and the tar file from mozilla.org and it crashes both on linux debian.
Peter's running NT, and I can't tell what Jose's running. Could someone confirm
that it's working for them on Linux?

Comment 5

[Adam Hauner]

Dror Matalon: Could you provide Talkback incident ID of your crash?

Comment 6

[Dror Matalon]

Oops sorry, didn't think of preserving the talk back ID. Here are some
additional details on this problem. 
http://www.brainjar.com/ also triggered the crash.

On analyzing the bug I found out that what triggered it was having in CSS
position: absolute;
on both sites.

This is all on linux. As part of debugging, I created user guest on my machine
and that user using the same browser had no problems with the above sites. 
I then, moved over my home directory and created a new empty home directory so
that none of my dot files apply and tried it again and still the browser would
crash. 
I then changed the uid on my login, changed the uid on all my filed, logged out
and then logged back in and the crash went away. So it's not something specific
to my config as far as my .mozilla files as I was suspecting. Possibly something
to do with gconf?

Hope this helps a bit, but it's a very strange bug.

Comment 7

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405
Firefox/1.0+

WFM, but I am not on Linux.

Comment 8

[nulldomain]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 9

[Tristor]

Er, I forgot to leave a comment.

Reporter, Commentors:

If you can reproduce this in the latest milestone or a recent nightly (less than
3 days old) feel free to re-open.