298921 - Browser crashes when clicking on a news article.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Ever since I installed the latest Mozilla update my browser crashes on a news
link in my yahoo homepage. Its not always the same link. It can be any news
link. When I restart the browser the same link that caused the crash may cause
it to crash again or the link may work. In options in the browser the "allow
websites to install software" is unchecked and "Load images" is checked. Bot the
java options are checked.I reinstalled the browser several times to no avail.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a yahoo account and go to yahoo home page. 
2.Set up home page with many news links.
3.click on all news links until you find one that crashes Mozilla Firefox
4.restart Browser and try to click on same link until it works which chances are
it will.

Actual Results:  
Mozilla Firefox crashes

Expected Results:  
link to news article

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you still crash if you run Firefox in the firefox safemode ?
(http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode)

Comment 2

[John]

This bug is too old, general, and should be invalid.

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

This WORKSFORME using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Mac OS X and Windows XP.

Bill, if you can still reproduce this and are willing to help figure out what's wrong, please file a new bug with details, including a talkback ID.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback