280114 - Firefox Crashes when accessing non-existent ftp site/file

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Todd Walton]

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

When I try access a non-existent or unavailable ftp file Firefox crashes.  The
URL I originally discovered this on is here:
ftp://sflovers.rutgers.edu/pub/sf-lovers/bibliographies/authorlists/Vinge.Vernor

But it seems to happen with any ftp:// address that doesn't exist.  I get the
Windows XP "Send Bug Report to Microsoft?" dialog box, and Firefox goes away. 
In every other browser I've used, including Netscape 7.2, I just get a "could
not be found" type error message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

You're using a Proxy?

Comment 2

[Todd Walton]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You're using a Proxy?

No, I'm not.

Comment 3

[Adam Hauner]

WFM FF1.0+/20050216/WXP, FF1.0.1/WXP

Todd Walton: Could you provide Talkback incident ID?

Comment 4

[Todd Walton]

What's a Talkback incident ID?  The Firefox I'm using doesn't give me the option
of reporting a crash.  (That's what talkback is, right?)

Comment 5

[Adam Hauner]

Todd: Talkback is a component of Firefox which, when installed, automatically
comes up after a Firefox crash and asks you to send some data to Mozilla. You
can supply, but that is no must, your email address, and it would be fine, if
you can supply the url, where the crash happened, and a short description. You
can look at the collected data, if you select detail, and remove some of them,
if you want to. You then decide if you want to send the report, or not. Talkback
is started automatically at crash, but it doesn´t talkback automatically, you
are always in control.

To use Talkback:
- you must download a talkback-enabled build
- you must have selected talkback for install at install time (!!!)
- you must enable it after a crash (it is then waiting in the task bar) 
- you can fill in some data, loook at the data collected.
- you must click at submit button to send the report, or cancel to not send.

When a report is send, the server sends back a Talkback ID. You can see this id,
if you start talkback.exe in your firefox/components directory. You can do so,
while Firefox is running, and give this number here in a comment. 
Developers then can see in which parts of the program Firefox was crashing.

Comment 6

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

-> no reply

No response from the reporter for more than 3 months.  I am going to mark this
wfm, if a talkback-id, etc comes in, feel free to re-open.

also WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b3)
Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0+