283968 - Firefox crashes on navigation to this page due to javascript

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Wagar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8B2) Gecko/20050226 Firefox/1.0+

The "firefox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" window comes up
on navigation to this page if javascript is enabled; it comes up fine if
disabled.  This problem is 100% reproducible on one of my XP computers, but
never happens on the other.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Navigate to http://www.news12.com/CT
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The "firefox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" window comes up

Expected Results:  
Displayed the page without crashing

Happens regardless of what theme is installed.  The affected computer is quite
new and generally without problems, although I do have to run with Norton
Internet Security disabled on it or no browser will work; haven't figured out
why yet.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Do you have any extensions installed? Which?
Also try with a new, clean profile.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

And more importantly, could you provide a Talkback ID?

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050227
Firefox/1.0

No crash for me; but I did get this message when I closed the window containing
your URL. (I have javascript enabled in the new preferences dialogue, including
common annoyances).

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIObserverService.removeObserver]"  nsresult:
"0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: destroy :: line 578"  data: no]

Comment 4

[Steve Wagar]

I checked that the bug was still there; yes.  I had Ad Block extension, and had 
not tried default theme.  I removed Ad Block and used default theme, and the 
bug went away.  I restored a custom theme; still no bug.  I conclude Ad Block 
had something to do with it.  I don't have Talkback; I will install it if I 
have any further troubles.  Thanks!

Comment 5

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

This might be related to bug 274425. 
Talkback is at least included in the zipped builds of the latest nightlies:
http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.win32.zip
So if you would try it out with that build, that would be nice.

Comment 6

[Tristor]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050405
Firefox/1.0+

WFM, and I believe it was concluded that this was due to an extension causing
problems.  I am going to mark this WFM, re-open if you can reproduce in latest
builds with a clean profile, etc.