304819 - Firefox 1.0.6 crashes in Yahoo Finance (as of Aug16, 2005)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Bruno Melloni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

First time I experience this problem, also first time I use firefox on this site
since upgrading to 1.0.6.

The browser crashes as soon as the page displays for a specific stock symbol.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to finance.yahoo.com
2. Enter a stock symbol - any stock symbol (i.e.: FRE)
3. Hit enter.
4. Firefox crashes.

Actual Results:  
Page displayed, error message, firefox crashed.

Expected Results:  
No error or crash after display.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050816
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Stephen Smith]

WFM in Deer Park Alpha 2. Please re-test with a newer version of Mozilla
Firefox. Otherwise this should be marked as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Bruno Melloni]

(In reply to comment #2)
> WFM in Deer Park Alpha 2. Please re-test with a newer version of Mozilla
> Firefox. Otherwise this should be marked as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.

I checked both through tools/options and on the mozilla.org site.  I see no
newer production version for Firefox than 1.0.6.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/alpha2.html

"Note: The Deer Park build you are using is NOT A FINAL OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION
of Firefox, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no
end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the
latest version of Firefox" which is 1.0.6

It would be helpful if you can test with Deer Park. If you don't want to that is
ok too.

Comment 5

[Bruno Melloni]

(In reply to comment #4)
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/alpha2.html
> 
> "Note: The Deer Park build you are using is NOT A FINAL OR PRE-RELEASE VERSION
> of Firefox, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no
> end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the
> latest version of Firefox" which is 1.0.6
> 
> It would be helpful if you can test with Deer Park. If you don't want to that is
> ok too.

Why do you say I am using the Deer Park version?  I originally installed an
older production version of Firefox.  The production version notified me and
updated itself to 1.0.6.  About/Help shows: 1.0.6.

At the bottom of About/Help it shows:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

Is this Deer Park?  If so, there is a very scary bug in the auto-update process
that turns production installs into non-production.  If not, then perhaps
Bugzilla auto-detected my version incorrectly?  At this point I am quite confused.

Comment 6

[Kevin Brosnan]

No you are not using deer park. Deer Park is a developer name for what will
become Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.0.6 (which is what you are using) is the most up
to date version of Firefox released for general use.

The suggestion we were makeing was for you to try Deer Park Alpha 2. It is not
required that you try it.

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

Talkback ID please. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Comment 8

[Bruno Melloni]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Talkback ID please. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Unable to reproduce any more.  Looks like yahoo noticed the problem with Firefox
and corrected it on their end.  I will write down the Talkback ID if I see the
problem again.

In the meantime, although it is not fixed, it might be better to close this bug
because it can no longer be reproduced.