279651 - crashes and forces computer restart without warning after a long session

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[willhawk]

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

Firefox normally works fine. However, after long sessions involving extensive
web browsing, often after my laptop has been on without restarting for several
days, I have now had four or five occasions when, while using Firefox, the
computer restarts without warning. I am not 100% sure this is a Firefox problem
as opposed to a system problem, but every time it has occurred, Firefox has been
the open window and I've just clicked on a link (which works fine on other
occasions). It has usually been preceded by dropping my wireless connection,
requiring a connection to Ethernet to continue browsing. Is cache management an
issue? This never occurred with IE.
I'm using an IBM Thinkpad T41 running XP Pro SP2 (and connecting using Netgear
wireless router).

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Keep session active for days.
2. Browse a lot.
3.

Actual Results:  
Computer restarts without warning.

Expected Results:  
At least give a warning so that I can close other programs.

I'm using an IBM Thinkpad T41 running XP Pro SP2 (and connecting using Netgear
wireless router). Running the default theme.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You get a blue screen with automatic reboot. You should disable the automatic
reboot (under win2k : System CVontrol\system\advanced\...) to see the cause.

Only a kernel mode driver can cause such a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) but
Firefox is a userspace application without kernel mode drivers. That means that
firefox can only trigger a bug in one of your drivers but itself can't cause this.

-> invalid.