319275 - crash on loading Yahoo games

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275783

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Praveen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Firefox 1.5 crashes, rather vanishes without any core dump from my linux (suse 9.3) distro when trying to load pool from yahoo games. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.login to yahoo
2.go to games
3.click on pool
4.Click continue on the link above the advertisement. Firefox vanishes.

Actual Results:  
Firefox vanishes without any error.

Expected Results:  
thrown error if there the web page was not supported

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Java is needed by yahoo games.

What's your java version ?

I can go further than you, but they are kicking out MacOS-X users :(

Note : I have both JRE 1.4.2 and JRE 5.0 on my MacOS-X Tiger 10.4.3

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051205 Firefox/1.5

WFM. Java starts; I see "Applet y.vmd.0 started" in the statusbar.
Have you also tried it in Firefox's safemode?
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_Mode_(Firefox)

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Could you install with talkback and get a talkback ID for the crash? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback

Comment 4

[Praveen]

1. Firefox crashes even in safe-mode.

2. 
praveen@linux:/opt/MozillaFirefox> java -version
java version "1.4.2_08"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_08-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_08-b03, mixed mode)                     

I could not figure out the jre version. Can you point out to me the command to 
find the jre-version ?

3. Talkback is installed, but could not enable it. Per mentioned in the site, i couldnt find any valid executable to turn on the Talkback settings.

Comment 5

[Praveen]

Using gdb, I tried to catch any exceptions. The result is always the program exit code is 0377. No stack trace or any exception thrown. 
I am trying to build firefox on my suse and try to debug. Let see if that is of help in anyway.

Comment 6

[Praveen]

This seems more like a problem with JRE on linux. But firefox doesnt seem to handle something very well, here.
In my linux systems (SUSE 9.3 and RHEL 4), I tried to open www.tehelka.com and firefox vanishes. The error code returned when run with gdb attached to the process is 0377.
However, when i try to open it from firefox on windows, it opens, though there is a missing plugin. Installed JRE 5 update 6, but still it works well on windows.

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I wonder if you could try updating to the current JRE 5 version on Linux?

Comment 8

[Praveen]

[root@l-pkumar firefox]# firefox --g
MozPlugger: Warning: Unable to find the mozpluggerrc file.
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Exec of "java_vm" failed: 2
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System error?:: No such file or directory

** (Gecko:4339): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 17

** (Gecko:4339): WARNING **: Serious fd usage error 15
INTERNAL ERROR on Browser End: Could not read ack from child process
System error?:: Resource temporarily unavailable

Comment 9

[Praveen]

I installed the latest jre 1.5.0_01 and it works. Able to open all the mentioned sites.. 

But for making Firefox better, would suggest that crashes due to plugins be handled.

Comment 10

[Praveen]

I am all confused. 
After installing the new jre and creating a link to libjavaplugin_oji.so to point to the right lib file. I was able to open the website once. I closed the CR and reopned the website, firefox crashed. I ran firefox as root and I was able to open the websites once and crashes the second time I close and reopen firefox.

I opened the java script console and opned http://www.thehindu.com by evaluating this link and clicking on the warning that this link generates on the console. Upon clicking the link I get this dump in the javascript console window.

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIWebNavigation.loadURI]"  nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/viewSource.js :: viewSource :: line 145"  data: no]

Comment 11

[Parkhideh]

With two versions of Firfox (1.5 beta and 1.5 released) on two different PCs with Win 98; Firefox crashes everytime going to 
1- URL   play.yahoo.com
2- Click on login  (there may be other popup windows in between, keep continue)
3- Choose spade
4- Choose intermediate

Twice on 18th January 2006 the Talkback program sent in the data.  On 19th Talkback cannot find the server(?!) to report.

Comment 12

[Parkhideh]

Sorry forgot to mention JRE 1.4.1; and Netscape 7.1 works fine under the same condition.
I do have the plug-in "NoScripts" for protecting JavaScripts on Firefox which Netscape does not have.  I do not know how to remove this plug-in; because sometimes it appears to be in the middle of the crashing act (just a feel, no data yet).

Comment 13

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275783 ***