288304 - crash if I print or view print preview of http://www.vldb2005.org

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Timotheus Preisinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

If I try to print the page at http://www.vldb2005.org, Firefox 1.0.2 crashes.
(Netscape 7.1 as well!) The print menu works fine. I have tried to use different
printers . Firefox crashes as well when I only try to open the print preview.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open http://www.vldb2005.org
2. Print the page.
Actual Results:  
Firefox 1.0.2 crashed

Expected Results:  
Page print.

I re-installed FireFox 1.0.2 to be sure that Talkback was activated. After
nothing different from before happened, I tried to start Talkback myself.
Although Talkback told me it would be running, I did not get a message in
Talkback after any crash.
Only after deactivating all plugins ("Minimize to Tray 0.0.1.20041101+",
"Mozilla Calendar 0.8.2+" and "MediaPlayerConnectivity 0.2.0") and starting in
"--safe-mode", Talkback was started! It did not start when I only deactivated
the plugins or when I only started in "--safe-mode". I had to do both.

Comment 1

[Giles Robertson]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050329
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

Timotheus Preisinger - You can download the most recent nightly build (very
stable, currently derived from 1.2.0) from this website:
http://www.mozilla.org/developer/

If you are still having this problem after updating Firefox, please comment back
and tell us so.

Thank you.

Comment 3

[mango]

the page below and others with "william h brown" as the agent casue this crash
also, have verified this in 1.0.2 on a windows98 machine and 1.0 on a linux machine 

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-6147614.rsp/svr/1006;jsessionid=3D06FA9CF1CE00C53166493505AAF26B?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy&chnl=buy

Comment 4

[Gyles Harvey]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> the page below and others with "william h brown" as the agent casue this crash
> also, have verified this in 1.0.2 on a windows98 machine and 1.0 on a linux
machine 
> 
>
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-6147614.rsp/svr/1006;jsessionid=3D06FA9CF1CE00C53166493505AAF26B?pa_n=1&tr_t=buy&chnl=buy

I get a crash on any description page, regardless of which estate agent.

I have seen this on '98, 2000 and XP with a variety of different printer drivers.

Comment 5

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050410
Firefox/1.0+

Please post which version of firefox you are using. Go to Help > About and
copy/paste the last two lines the look like my first line.

Comment 6

[Gyles Harvey]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317
Firefox/1.0.2

Additionally, on one occasion when printing to a PDF generator program the
following log was generated:

%%[ Error: ioerror; OffendingCommand: @image ]%%
%%[ File: ASCII85Decode; Reason: Bad ASCII data ]%%
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
Job complete. Elapsed time : 12 seconds

Comment 7

[Gyles Harvey]

Attachment: Captured by PDF printer driver, showing how far it got.

The original site (http://www.vldb2005.org) works for me too.

I take back by comment about all agents failing, the following page works for
me:
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-5673794.rsp?pa_n=false&tr_t=buy&ep=via_sl


The page uses CSS, so I wonder if this is related to Bug #266681?

Comment 8

[Nick Michaluk]

I see this same problem with firefox 1.0.6 when I try to print or print preview
ANY recipe from the following website:

http://magazines.ivillage.com/marieclaire/frenchdiet/

However I do not encounter the problem with the website submitted by the
reporter of this bug.

An error I see when I try to print in the terminal used to invoke firefox is: 
Trying to position a sizeless window; caller should have called sizeToContent()
or sizeTo(). See bug 75649.
 NO FONT WAS FOUND Name["Sans"]
 NO FONT WAS FOUND Name["Sans"]
 NO FONT WAS FOUND Name["Sans"]

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM - neither http://magazines.ivillage.com/marieclaire/frenchdiet/ nor
http://www.vldb.org/ crash for me with trunk builds of suite and FF, for example
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050905
Firefox/1.6a1

Comment 10

[Gabriel Sjoberg]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050912
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005091207

Everyone using the 1.8 branch or newer has reported that this behavior no longer
exists and the original reporter hasn't responded to comment 2 in 9 months. 
Resolving WORKSFORME.

Comment 11

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

<- VERI