319299 - Firefox 1.5 crashes on unloading Adobe SVG Viewer plugin 3.01x88

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Other, defect)

Description

[Bart Friederichs]

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

Whenever a page with an SVG, which is displayed by the Adobe SVG Viewer (ASV), is closed or reloaded, firefox crashes with a segmentation fault.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable builtin SVG support
2. Install ASV 3.01x88 for Linux
3. Load a page with SVG
4. Firefox crashes

Actual Results:  
Firefox crashes with a segmentation fault:

/usr/lib/firefox-1.5/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  6927 Segmentation fault      "$prog" ${1+"$@"}


Expected Results:  
Firefox closes or reloads the page.

The builtin SVG support of Firefox is not an option here, because it lacks some of the specification still. The SVG I am using relies heavily on scripting and some (by Firefox) unsupported tags.

Comment 1

[timeless]

please install talkback and repeat... then report the talkback incident id.

Comment 2

[Bart Friederichs]

The rquested incident report can be found at:

http://www.friesoft.nl/Fx15_incident.tar.gz

It is a tarball of the directory containing the report in the ~/.fullcircle directory. 

I was unable to send it with the Talkback program ("Unable to send"), and also trying to upload it in bugzilla as attachment did not work ("400 Bad request").

Comment 3

[Hiro]

dup bug133567 ?

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133567 ***

Comment 5

[Bart Friederichs]

I read the comments on bug #133567, and I have some comments on them:

1. #133567 is mainly geared towards Windows, this problem is for Linux. On Windows, Firefox pre-1.5 also crashes on the ASV plugin /load/.
2. Somewhere it is noted that ASV might be using frozen APIs in the last Linux plugin (3.01), if this is true, then Firefox unfroze the API and broke the plugin, hence this is not a duplicate of #133567.
3. Should I read the duplication note as 'ASV uses unfrozen plugins, it might cause crashes'?
4. I must note that the ASV plugin works fine for pre-1.5 versions of Firefox under Linux.

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

Bart, if you get a stack for this and it's different from the one in bug 133567 then we can reopen this. BTW, why are you using a plug-in for SVG when Firefox 1.5 natively supports it?

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 320321 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Bart Friederichs]

- I posted a incident report on my website (see previous comment), because Talkback wasn't able to automatically report it. If it is the same as bug 133567, then this *is* a duplicate (I don't know how to tell).

- I have to use the plugin, because the native SVG lacks some features that are used in the application I have built. Besides, the SVG plugin is a lot faster than the native implementation.

Comment 9

[Helder "Lthere" Magalhães]

IMHO this could be marked "won't fix", "fixed" or even "invalid", as the root cause is in a software product (ASV) which was publicly discontinued [1].

[1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html

Comment 10

[Helder "Lthere" Magalhães]

(In reply to comment #9)
> IMHO this could be marked "won't fix", "fixed" or even "invalid", as the root
> cause is in a software product (ASV) which was publicly discontinued [1].

A similar action was already done for bug 133567.

Comment 11

[timeless]

fine with me. ff1.5 and ff2 are EOL.