311215 - Visiting this site causes Firefox to exit without warning

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 210931

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Peter Yellman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Loading just about any page at http://www.tcmagazine.info/ causes Firefox to
exit without warning.  Reproduced on Firefox 1.06 & 1.5 Beta 1.  Site delivers a
single cookie, then browser exits.  Tried disabling Javascript, problem
persists.    This is a very MS Windows-centric site, obviously.  I'd like to
know how to capture more information on this problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.tcmagazine.info/
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
A single cookie is delivered, then browser exits.

Expected Results:  
Display the page.

Extensions inlcude:
Dom Inspector 1.8b4 (on Firefox 1.5b)
Adblock 0.52.039 (both)
Colorzilla 0.83 (both)
Webdeveloper 09.4 (both)
ViewCookies 1.3 (on Firefox 1.06)
DevBoi 0.26 (on Firefox 1.06)

Comment 1

[Peter Yellman]

(In reply to comment #0)

I would like to add the following:

When launched from the command line, the crash produces the following output:
The program 'firefox-bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 13031 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Peter Yellman

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051005
Firefox/1.4.1 ID:2005100505

In windows this is WFM.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

1. Adblock 0.52.039 is poor on branch, try Adblock Plus at
http://bene.sitesled.com/adblock.htm
2. Have you tried in -safemode ?

Comment 4

[Elmar Ludwig]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051003 Firefox/1.4.1

This WFM on Linux with a current 1.5 branch build.

Comment 5

[Peter Yellman]

I tried a couple of "blank slate" installs (removed .mozilla profile directory,
unpacked fresh copies of Firefox 1.0.6 & 1.5b).  No extensions. No plugins. 
Same result.

Tried -safemode.  Same result.

I'll do my best to dissect the page and see where it crashes.  Try a branch
build, maybe, but I am on dialup.

Comment 6

[Peter Yellman]

I retrieved the offending page using wget -k http://www.tcmagazine.info/

Viewing the local copy also caused Firefox to crash.

I commented out the style sheet.  Success.  Firefox DID NOT crash.

I downloaded the style sheet and pointed the style sheet directive to the local
copy. Success.  Firefox DID NOT crash.

I don't see anything particularly unusual about this style sheet, except that it
is quite large -- over 29k.

I did notice that the site (IIS 6) specified Connection: close, so I turned off
pipelining, but that did not solve the problem.

Peter Yellman

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

There is a 10,000 pixel wide background-image in the stylesheet.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210931 ***