280654 - Browser lockup on page navigation

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kleven Bingham]

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

When navigating away from the page above by selecting the 'Radar Loop' option of
the 'Radar' menu near the top of the page, the browser locks up and the process
has to be killed.

I am certain that I was able to navigate in this manner with FireFox in the
past, however I do not know if this behavior began when I started using a newer
version of FireFox or if it started while using a consistent version (implying a
change to, and thus a breaking of, the code on intellicast.com)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Paste the above URL into the address line and load that page.
2. Mouse over the 'Radar' menu at the top of the page
3. Select 'Radar Loop' in the menu.


Actual Results:  
Browser locked up.

Expected Results:  
Successfully navigated to and loaded the page referenced by the 'Radar Loop'
item in the 'Radar' menu.

If I perform these steps in IE6SP1, there are no issues.  When I copy the
destination URL reached by selecting the 'Radar Loop' menu item and past that
URL into the FireFox address bar, the page loads without problems.  I have not
verified (not sure how to) that intellicast.com is attempting to load the same
URL for FireFox and IE6 when performing these actions.

Comment 1

[Jim Davis]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

WFM, although I don't see a "Radar Loop" menu item, just "Loop".

Comment 2

[Kleven Bingham]

(In reply to comment #1)

Jim,

You are correct, 'Loop' is the menu item.  Not sure how I confused that...

Some additional info:  I have the same version of FireFox installed on Windows
XP SP2 with all patches from Windows Update, and the lockup does NOT occur. 
However, I do have different extensions and plugins for FireFox installed on the
XP box.  The Windows 2000 box is SP4 fully patched.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050201
Firefox/1.0+

Java 1.3.1 Plug-in

WFM

Comment 4

[Kleven Bingham]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050201
> Firefox/1.0+
> 
> Java 1.3.1 Plug-in
> 
> WFM

Ben,

I was hot on this trail, and you are right.  The Java 1.3.1 Plug-in was the
culprit.  With the most recent version of the JRE (1.5.1 Upd 1) everything is fine.

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> wfm (works with JRE1.5)