296908 - FF crashes when trying to visit the Java download page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Greg Pullman]

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

From http://java.com: click on the 'Java software download' button. FireFox
disappears. Doesn't happen in Mozilla 1.7.5. Reproduced twice.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to above page
2. Click download button
3. Watch FF crash

Actual Results:  
FF disappeared from screen and taskbar

Expected Results:  
Well, hopefully it would have gone to the next page

No crash information was reported, it just disappeared.

Comment 1

[William Bumgarner [:zsinj]]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050605
Firefox/1.0+

Try to reproduce this with a nightly build: http://www.mozilla.org/developer

Comment 2

[Greg Pullman]

Tried with the nightly build and it was OK, but then tried with FF1.0.4 and it
was OK again; so don't know whether it was a problem with their site, an OS
error which required a restart or a glitch somewhere else which the nightly
build ironed out for FF. Will flag again and investigate further if it comes up
again.