294600 - ActiveX plugin error when loading Flash (?) or Shockwave animations.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Plugins Graveyard :: Shockwave (Adobe), defect)

Description

[JDBarnhart]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)

As numerous pages loaded on the http://www.neopets.com website, I received the
following warning: "Mozilla ActiveX control and plugin support.  The plugin
performed an illegal operation.  You are strongly advised to restart Navigator."
 Included in the dialogue box was a check-button to discontinue that warning. 
As close as I can tell this is in response to the loading of Flash/Shockwave
animations.

I am using a few plugins, but probably most likely to be relevant: AdBlock.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Log in to the Neopets website.
2.  Click the "games" icon on the sidebar.  Then choose "puzzles" and finally
"Attack of the Marblemen".
3.  As the page is nearly completely loaded, the error message occurs right as
the Flash/Shockwave animations complete pre-loading.

Actual Results:  
THe error message occured as described above.  It seems that the error message
only occurs once for each particular page (on the site), and doesn't reoccur
when reloading the page.


I could not get any Talkback crash ID or information from the Feedback Agent
(which was supposed to help with bug reporting...).

Comment 1

[Anders Conbere]

this is not an issue with flash, but rather an issue with one of firefox's
lovely features.  It's complete and utter lack of activeX support.  The
gaping/sucking chest wound of a security whole that has been the doon of many an
IE exploit.  There exists an activeX plugin, but it's limited and not
recommeneded.  Rather you should email the neopets devs and tell them that
ActiveX is a proprietary Microsoft web tool that isn't supported on other
browsers or operatings systems, and ask them to update their site to accomidate
this.

Comment 2

[timeless]

talkback would only trigger if nothing caught the crash. in this case, the
dialog and the fact you didn't actually crash is in lieu of the crash, so no
talkback.

can you disable activex/shockwave to discern which is actually crashing?

i might be able to get some information if you follow the steps at
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/dependency-walker.html running firefox and
browsing to that page, and then save and zip the resulting dwi file and make it
available on a web server.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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