308198 - XP STOP error when clicking on link

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[jessestrachman]

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

Clicked on particular link in Google results; BOOM. XP crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Searched for "and he takes and he takes and he takes" using the built-in
Google toolbar search feature
2. Clicked on the link "The Soft Revolution - Los Angeles Times"

Actual Results:  
XP completely shut down; blue screen of death, STOP error.

Expected Results:  
You'd think it would have just displayed the web page I clicked in rather than
shutting down the operating system. Hmmmmm?

Comment 1

[jessestrachman]

Hmmm. This happens in IE too; same URL. So, since it happens in BOTH browsers, I
think it's probably either a bug in Flash or Java, but I'm going to leave it
open in case someone wants to take a look at it anyway.

Comment 2

[Josh Birnbaum]

If you're getting a STOP error, it means a kernel-level problem.  Probably a bad
device driver, video perhaps.  Nothing for us to do here, marking invalid.

Comment 3

[timeless]

see bug 307577, follow the steps (be sure to configure your system to dump a 
core: win-break>advanced>startup and recovery|settings>write debugging 
information <- the bigger the better)

the problem can be anything, but i'm willing to debug it until we show it's 
something that you can direct elsewhere.

Comment 4

[jessestrachman]

Okay, I've installed the debugger and scoured the related bug report, but I
don't see any specific instructions as to how to set up Windows to perform a
core dump. Maybe I'm just missing it? Should I set certain flags using the
Global Flags utility? Thanks very much.

Comment 5

[jessestrachman]

Sorry, still haven't gotten around to dealing with this. Still on my radar though.