324524 - camino (and FireFox 1.5) hang (unresponsive in force quit dialog) trying to load above page

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325084

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[Chris Franklin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051229 Camino/1.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051229 Camino/1.0b2

enter above URL into Camino or FireFox 1.5. window starts to load and puts message in scroll area about loading data from ishares.  camino becomes unresponsive. there is a Java applet on the page to draw a chart.  this works fine in Safari and  IE on Windows XP.  Camino hangs and needs to be killed in Force Quit in Finder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter url
2. expect page to load with chart
3. observe camino is now unresponsive

Actual Results:  
camino unresponsive

Expected Results:  
show page like Safari or IE on Windows XP

Comment 1

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

Doesn't hang Camino for me, but doesn't load the graph.

Either way, since this occurs on FF as well, should this be Core rather than Camino?

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

The affected URL does not appear to be publicly accessible. Reporter, can you post a publicly accessible URL that has the same problem?

cl

Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

The above URL redirects me to this page:

http://www.ishares.com/splash.jhtml

which displays fine, by the way. Just FYI.

cl

Comment 4

[Chris Franklin]

This may be Intel dependent (I'm running on a new Dual Core iMac).  A buddy tried to repro on G5 with no luck.  the URL should be public.  Here are alternative steps to get there:
1. enter www.ishares.com
2. Quick Finder menus should be on the top left of page. Choose International->Americas->MSCI Canada Fund (EWC)
3. In the middle of the page, find and click on link Premium/Discount Chart (it's immediately under the first Table Title NAV/Price as of mm/dd/yyyy.

Comment 5

[Mark Mentovai]

Chris, it sounds like you're running the official PowerPC version under Rosetta?

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #4)

> 1. enter www.ishares.com
> 2. Quick Finder menus should be on the top left of page. Choose
> International->Americas->MSCI Canada Fund (EWC)
> 3. In the middle of the page, find and click on link Premium/Discount Chart
> (it's immediately under the first Table Title NAV/Price as of mm/dd/yyyy.

Using these steps, I get the behaviour described in comment #1. Likewise with Fx 1.5 official release. I get a chart in Safari.

Why these people think they need to use Java to display a simple graphic is beyond me, but my guess is we've got a JEP issue here.

cl

Comment 7

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Is this still an issue in Camino 1.0rc1 (which is Universal)? http://www.caminobrowser.org/download/releases/1.0rc1/

Comment 8

[Chris Franklin]

not a problem in camino universal 1.0rc1

Comment 9

[Mark Mentovai]

Not because anything's been fixed, but because you've taken Rosetta out of the equation.

Comment 10

[Mark Mentovai]

On the second thought, I'm reopening and giving it to Steven.  We should try to not crash when loading Java under Rosetta, we should just fail.  Steven, if you don't want this bug, I'll take it (but I'll need to give the patch to you anyway, so...)

See also bug 323657 comment 23.

Comment 11

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

I can't do anything about this bug until I get my own Apple Intel box.  I'm
planning to get a MacBook Pro, which I hope I'll be able to lay hands on by
late February to early March (depending on when Apple starts shipping them).
Until then, Mark, this bug is yours by default :-)

Comment 12

[Mark Mentovai]

Oh, guess what?  I already created a bug for that issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 325084 ***