311273 - Windows Media Player plugin hangs and Firefox does not exit when last window is closed (with embedded windows media video (wmv))

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308799

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[u81239]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051004 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051004 Firefox/1.4.1

I've had some problems with opening an embedded WMV movie in a new browser
window, and then closing the window. It tells me something about illegal
operation yada yada, and although I can still use the open tabs, navigating
becomes impossible and I really do have to restart Firefox.

When I close all browser windows, it still leaves the Firefox process running,
and when I try to restart it, Firefox tells me it couldn't do that and I would
have to restart my system. I have to manually end the firefox.exe process before
I can use it again.

Used to have this problem more often in earlier nightlies from maybe a couple of
months ago, but haven't encountered it as much since. But occasionally I still
do, like on the mentioned website.

I'd say this is pretty critical.


~Grauw

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have some browser windows/tabs open
2. Go to http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/steveocorolla.html (in a new window?)
3. Close window

Actual Results:  
Error message, browser doesn’t crash but becomes unusable.

Expected Results:  
Work as usual.

Comment 1

[u81239]

You need to open the link in a new window:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/steveocorolla.html (SHIFT-click)

When I close it I get the following error (roughly translated from Dutch) (using
Firefox nl-NL):

+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Illegal operation in plugin                         [x]|
+--------------------------------------------------------+
| Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library      |
|                                                        |
| The plugin has performed an illegal operation. You are |
| strongly recommended to restart Firefox.               |
|                                                        |
| [ ] Don’t show this message again during this session  |
|                                                        |
|                       [  OK  ]                         |
+--------------------------------------------------------+


~Grauw

Comment 2

[u81239]

Using Windows Media Player 10.00.00.3802 (nl).

Comment 3

[u81239]

The problem is not present in Firefox 1.0.7 (just tested).

Comment 4

[u81239]

I can also see this problem at:

http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/690/690627/vids_1.html

Click on the "Watch It Now" link at the "Stabbed and Crushed (10/04/2005)"
video, or any other video in WMV format.

That’s where I encountered this issue before. I don’t think it got better, I
just don’t frequent IGN that often.


~Grauw

Comment 5

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

This WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4)
Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4. Will test latest nightly next.

Comment 6

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

This also WFM using the latest nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051005 Firefox/1.4.1 and WMP v10.00.00.3646.

If this crashes, can you provide a talkback ID?

Comment 7

[u81239]

I found out that this only happens when the Optimoz Mouse Gestures (1.0.2)
extension is installed.

I tried Firefox 1.0.7 with Mouse Gestures 1.0.2, and there is no problem.

So... what do Mouse Gestures have to do with plugins? :)


~Grauw

p.s. it doesn’t crash, it just messes up badly and then hangs.

Comment 8

[u81239]

I sent the following mail to [e-mail]:
================================================
Heya,

I found a pretty nasty conflict that Mouse Gestures 1.0.2 has with embedded WMVs
in Firefox 1.5 Beta 2. It works fine in 1.0.7.

Basically, whenever I open an embedded WMV file in a new window, and then close
that window, Firefox gives a plugin error, starts getting confused and hangs.

I filed a bug report about it @ mozilla.org:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311273

The bug has a couple of example links where this problem can be observed.


~Grauw

Comment 9

[Kevin]

It seems that Beta 2 has a problem with playing media on windows XP.  It won't open flash, windows media player, or quicktime.

Comment 10

[u81239]

This is the Optimoz Mouse Gestures bug (solved):

http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11567

They filed bug 308799.


~Grauw

Comment 11

[u81239]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 308799 ***

Comment 12

[bert]

Here to. Allways now, since I installed 1.5.
It happened a few times before, but never was really irritating.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Comment 13

[u81239]

Have you upgraded to the latest version of Optimoz Mouse Gestures? That is what triggered this bug for me, and it contains a workaround now, although of course there may be other extensions running into the same bug as well. In any case, this is caused by bug 308799, so please add your vote for that, maybe it値l be solved sooner then.


~Grauw

Comment 14

[bert]

(In reply to comment #13)
> Have you upgraded to the latest version of Optimoz Mouse Gestures? That is what
> triggered this bug for me, and it contains a workaround now, although of course
> there may be other extensions running into the same bug as well. In any case,
> this is caused by bug 308799, so please add your vote for that, maybe it値l be
> solved sooner then.
> 
> 
> ~Grauw
> 
I don't use Mousegesture-extensions.
Thnx. I'll add my vote there.