282811 - URL generates error: "The plugin performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart Navigator"

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ted Fischer]

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

Every time I go to the eBAy Home Page, I get this "Illegal operation in plugin"
error.  Doesn't matter if I go through the link from my own page, or directly to
"http://www.ebay.com" ... always get the same error.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter http://www.ebay.com in navigator window
2.Press Enter
3.

Actual Results:  
I get the "Illegal operation in plugin" error.

Expected Results:  
Open the page without an error.  No error is experienced with Netscape or IE.

The eBay home page is the only page where this occurs.  Sometimes, I have
multiple Firefox, Netscape, and IE open when listing on eBay.  I had this
situation last night ... some of the Netscape and Firefox windows had pending
items to be listed.  When I went to go to the eBay home page through Firefox,
every iteration of Firefox crashed.  This has happened a few times in the last
10 days or so.  I don't have the Talkback info ... if there is a way for me to
retrieve it please tell me.  There should be one from 2/17 around 10:30pm eastern.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

What flash version do you have? you can see this if you type about:plugins in
the url bar.

Found other similar bug have been duped to bug 55875

Comment 2

[Paul Sorensen]

I was going to report a bug similar to this - except that it was just to say
that you should not be using the word "Navigator" in Firefox.  

Comment 3

[Ted Fischer]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I was going to report a bug similar to this - except that it was just to say
> that you should not be using the word "Navigator" in Firefox.  

I don't know who the "you" is in your comment ... but if it is "me" - the bug 
reporter ...  What I reported is _exactly_ what was in the error box 
displayed ... word for word.  Interestingly enough, I had not even bothered 
with it recently, as I would prefer to use Firefox but can't afford the crashes 
when I'm working with multiple windows and listings, but I just tried it based 
on your e-mail.  I now get a different error ... It now reads... "Program Error 
firefox.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows.  You will need 
to restart the program.  An error log is being created."  This after upgrading 
to Firefox 1.0.1

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: 
Please answer comment#1

Comment 5

[Martijn (MozBrowser.nl)]

I think that the problem is also that the dialog box says that "Navigator"
crashed (although the plugin is executing within Firefox). If someone could just
adjust the text of this error message.

Also see http://www.mozbrowser.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?p=26921 for an
error-report about this.

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please don't morph this bug !
The "navigator" issue is a different bug and already fixed (of course not in the
very old FF1.0.3 which is based on a gecko from last year)

I never got an answer from the reporter about the question flash version and we
also need a talkback ID if FF crashes.

-> invalid