321718 - Attempts to use IBD dailygraphs function crash Firefox 1.5

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 279678

(Core :: Security: CAPS, defect)

Description

[Ty Kelly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Dailygraphs is a subscriber paid proprietary system of the IBD website.  I use it all the time and cannot afford to have it crash on me.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.log on investors.com
2.password log in as paid subscriber
3.conncet to "premium stock graphs" link 

Actual Results:  
crashes firefox 1.5

Expected Results:  
IBD stock graphs window opens

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Could you provide a Talkback ID for he crash?

Talkback is not installed by default. Please reinstall Firefox with Talkbalk
(choose custom install; Quality Feedback Agent).
To find the ID after the crash go to
<install dir>\extensions\[e-mail]\components\talkback.exe and copy
the ID to this bug.

Comment 2

[Ty Kelly]

for ria.klaasen - thanks for the suggestion.  I followed your suggestion, but the dialog box that came up with talkback.exe was blank, no bug IDs captured. Any other ideas?  Again thanks for your help.   

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Did you reproduce the crash after installing the Quality Feedback Agent?

Comment 4

[Ty Kelly]

OK I finally got it.  The ID is TB13356169W.

Comment 5

[timeless]

one of my favorites: no real js on stack, but caps gets lost in js

Incident ID: 13356169
Stack Signature	JS_GetScriptPrincipals 43983c3a
Product ID	Firefox15
Build ID	2005111116
Trigger Time	2005-12-28 14:03:21.0
Platform	Win32
Operating System	Windows NT 5.1 build 2600
Module	js3250.dll + (0000f193)
URL visited	ww.investors.com
User Comments	opening IBD dailygraphs service
Since Last Crash	414 sec
Total Uptime	19583 sec
Trigger Reason	Access violation
Source File, Line No.	c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/js/src/jsdbgapi.c, line 651
Stack Trace 	
JS_GetScriptPrincipals  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/js/src/jsdbgapi.c, line 651]
nsScriptSecurityManager::GetPrincipalAndFrame  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/caps/src/nsScriptSecurityManager.cpp, line 2026]
nsScriptSecurityManager::GetSubjectPrincipal  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/caps/src/nsScriptSecurityManager.cpp, line 2068]
nsScriptSecurityManager::doGetSubjectPrincipal  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/caps/src/nsScriptSecurityManager.cpp, line 1666]
nsScriptSecurityManager::SubjectPrincipalIsSystem  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/caps/src/nsScriptSecurityManager.cpp, line 1701]
nsGlobalWindow::IsCallerChrome  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/dom/src/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp, line 3144]
nsGlobalWindow::CanSetProperty  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/dom/src/base/nsGlobalWindow.cpp, line 4053]
nsWebShellWindow::HandleEvent  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/xpfe/appshell/src/nsWebShellWindow.cpp, line 501]
nsWindow::DispatchEvent  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp, line 1252]
nsWindow::DispatchFocus  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp, line 6168]
nsWindow::ProcessMessage  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp, line 4742]
nsWindow::WindowProc  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp, line 1434]
USER32.dll + 0x8734 (0x77d48734)
USER32.dll + 0x8816 (0x77d48816)
USER32.dll + 0xb4c0 (0x77d4b4c0)
USER32.dll + 0xb50c (0x77d4b50c)
ntdll.dll + 0xeae3 (0x7c90eae3)
USER32.dll + 0xb3f9 (0x77d4b3f9)
USER32.dll + 0xb393 (0x77d4b393)
nsWindow::DefaultWindowProc  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp, line 1460]
USER32.dll + 0x8734 (0x77d48734)
USER32.dll + 0x8816 (0x77d48816)
USER32.dll + 0xc63f (0x77d4c63f)
USER32.dll + 0xc665 (0x77d4c665)
nsWindow::WindowProc  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsWindow.cpp, line 1441]
USER32.dll + 0x8734 (0x77d48734)
USER32.dll + 0x8816 (0x77d48816)
USER32.dll + 0xb4c0 (0x77d4b4c0)
USER32.dll + 0xb50c (0x77d4b50c)
ntdll.dll + 0xeae3 (0x7c90eae3)
USER32.dll + 0x9402 (0x77d49402)
PeekKeyAndIMEMessage  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsAppShell.cpp, line 91]
nsAppShell::Run  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/widget/src/windows/nsAppShell.cpp, line 128]
nsAppStartup::Run  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/toolkit/components/startup/src/nsAppStartup.cpp, line 151]
main  [c:/builds/tinderbox/Fx-Mozilla1.8/WINNT_5.2_Depend/mozilla/browser/app/nsBrowserApp.cpp, line 61]
kernel32.dll + 0x16d4f (0x7c816d4f)

Comment 6

[Ty Kelly]

Timeless:  how do you fix it?  Thanks Ty Kelly

Comment 7

[timeless]

i wish i knew. or rather, if i knew, i'd have fixed it a long time ago :(.

Comment 8

[Ty Kelly]

I'm new to this de-bugging business and can offer no real help.  I got something on another bug fron [e-mail] concerning another bug 320349 that others may want to look at.  Problem stillnot fixed.  

Comment 9

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This sounds like bug 234169 -- where they use a proprietary ActiveX-wrapping plugin that hooks into and makes assumptions about opaque C++ objects. And then when those internal objects change from version to version they break. (see also earlier bug 181049 about the same plugin).

If that's what this is I recommend giving up and using something like the "IE View" extension for sites like this. The site isn't really interested in supporting Firefox and doesn't support Mac or Linux. Note their system requirements say Netscape 6.1-7.1 and specifically says that Netscape 7.2 (roughly FF0.9.3) doesn't work. http://www.investors.com/service/minReq.asp

IE Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=1419&application=firefox

IE View:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=35&application=firefox

Note that once you've installed the Asgard Plugin any site could use it to run ActiveX controls (if you didn't crash). Better to use IE View and explicitly allow ActiveX only on the sites where you must have it.