278372 - firefox is automatically closed when browsing this url http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Vlad Surducan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050113 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050113 Firefox/1.0+

MozillaFirefox is automatically shut down when acessing the following url:
http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks 
It happens the same either yo folow a link to this page or try to open this url
directly.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox 
2.write this url into the Location field
3.press Go  button

Actual Results:  
All instances of firefox are closed

Expected Results:  
Firefox should open the page , even if reporting an error.
The other instances should not shut down.


This happens with the official release Firefox 1.0 but also with the night-build
from Jan 14th 2005

I do not have the Quality Feedback Agent installed.

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 , no crash


Probably older Sun Java version

Uninstall your older sun Java version and install Sun Java JRE1.5

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

WFM too:

Java Plug-in 1.5.0_01
Using JRE version 1.5.0_01 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041221
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 3

[Vlad Surducan]

Hi guys.
I have JRE 1.5 latest version , so it is not the latest version. 

I downloaded the page at the URL reported. It contains an applet indeed. I 
took out the applet the page is loaded OK. 
So it's clear the applet is to blame. 

However I think FF should catch the error raised by the JRE and display an 
error. As I said it shuts down without warning. 
The installation was quite normal. I will try on a different computer.


 

Comment 4

[Patrick]

see http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/ for help with your plugin installation.

As to your other point, there's a bug out [search bugzilla for a bug that
mozilla should tolerate plugin malfunction.] for giving an error/warning message
instead of going down. [don't have the number handy here]

i hope this helps.
Marking wfm as far as this bug goes.