31101 - [SHOCKWAVE] crash on opening Discovery Channel Mammoth page that uses Shockwave and detects plug-ins with JavaScript

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Plugins Graveyard :: Shockwave (Adobe), defect, P3)

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Using Commercial 3/7 on WinNT 4.0 SP4.

To repro: open above URL. Mozilla crashes. 

Add'l info:
1) Crashed two of two tries. Appears easily reproducible. Submitted talkback 
report both times (on 3/8/00, from my email address).
2) The referenced page uses JavaScript to detect whether or not the 
Shockwave plug-in is present. Shockwave plug-in may or may not currently 
work on Mozilla, but Mozilla shouldn't crash regardless.
3) Even in Nav3/4, weren't there problems in which attempting to detect the 
presence of a plug-in via JavaScript caused crashes?

This is a problem of mammoth proportions. ;->

Comment 1

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Note: I *do* have Shockwave installed on my Nav4.72 installation, so Commercial 
3/7 may have tried to launch it.

Comment 2

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

Possibly a DUP of bug 27548?

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

I tried this page. But I do not crash. An applet runs on this page. However the 
shockwave flash movie on this page does not load and I see an image instead. 
Like Eric says, it seems that the javascript is not detecting the plugin in 
mozilla and displaying the image instead. As for bug 27548, this page has a 
shockwave director movie (.dcr) which causes a crash. So I don't think it is 
related to this bug (unless I crash and compare the stack traces). 
Eric, could you please retry this page on your machine with today's build ? 
Thanks !

Comment 4

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

No longer crashes using 3/10 Commercial 2000031012 on WinNT 4.0 SP4. Marking 
WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

Verified