279972 - A site sent incorrect or unexpected message Error -12281 hangs mozilla, firefox.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Dietmar May]

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

Mozilla (and Firefox) crash when viewing www.abcnews.com.

Both mozilla and firefox are configured to block pop-ups. However, on mozilla
(1.7.5 linux) a pop-up window flashes momentarily, then disappears; and mozilla
puts up a dialog stating (essentially):

216.133.230.175 A site sent an incorrect or unexpected message. Error Code: -12281.

Then, mozilla hangs, won't repaint, won't close - needs kill to terminate it.

The same problem happens with FireFox 1.0, except that the momentary pop-up
doesn't appear.

The problem has not been reproducible in windows mozilla 1.7.5.

This message is being generated by one of their ad partners, (doubleclick-type
company); and I suspect it is an attempt to get around pop-up blocking. (But
that's just a guess).

Perhaps by the time someone looks into this problem, the web site will no longer
be generating a malformed message; so it may not be possible to reproduce this
problem.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.browse to www.abcnews.com
2.wait ...

Actual Results:  
A pop-up window flashes momentarily, then disappears; and mozilla puts up a
dialog stating (essentially):

216.133.230.175 A site sent an incorrect or unexpected message. Error Code: -12281.

Then, mozilla hangs, won't repaint, won't close - needs kill to terminate it.

Expected Results:  
Shouldn't hang. Should gracefully respond to OK on the dialog, dismiss the
dialog, and ignore the incorrect or unexpected window.

System info:

RedHat 7.3
RH 2.4.21-27.0.2 kernel (has happened with stock 7.3 final 2.4.20 kernel).
RH glibc 2.3.2-95.30

P4-3.0 GHz, UP (not SMP - Intel MB doesn't support HT!)
1 GB RAM

Comment 1

[Dietmar May]

Follow-up - problem likely found.

As near as I can tell, it only happens with Macromedia Flash 7.0.25.0.

I've backed up to Flash 6 -- problem's gone.

Other configuration information:

Java JDK 1.5.0_01 - using symlink to its JRE plug-in (/usr/java/jre/plugin/...)
Acrobat Reader 5.0.10 - using symlink to its plugin (.../Browsers/plugin/...)
Macromedia Flash 7.0.25.0 - copied .so and .xpt to mozilla plugin dir

Comment 2

[Dietmar May]

Two more notes:

I've confirmed this problem occurs with ONLY the Flash 7 plug-in (and the
mozilla default plug-in) installed, and DOES NOT occur with Flash 6 plug-in;
whether or not Java or Acrobat plug-ins are present.

Also, am using the java ns7, NOT ns7-gcc29 plugin.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Please report this to Macromedia -- it siounds like a Flash bug.

Comment 4

[Dietmar May]

It was reported to Macromedia the day of my previous comment. I'm pretty certain
that it is a Flash bug. Hopefully they'll look into it and fix it. If not --
well, I haven't seen it since I rolled back to Flash 6. If anyone else
encounters similar problems with Flash 7, there appears to be a viable workaround.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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