330366 - firefox crashes on linux (but not xp) viewing weather underground's new wind gauge graphics

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 40931

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Timothy Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060313 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060313 Firefox/1.6a1

When I go to the url I cite, firefox crashes, on Linux but not on Windows XP. This happens using firefox 1.5 as well as the version in the build identifier line. I saved a copy of the page and files needed to load it (with "wget -k -p -H http://www.wunderground.com/US/RI/Providence.html") which I will attach to the bug if I can figure out how to do so (in case they've changed their site by the time you get to deal with this). This only started happening with wunderground a week or two ago, so I reported it to them, and they said to try disabling "rapid fire" and "wind graphics" at http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/rapidfirehelp.asp. Disabling wind graphics (but not rapid fire) seems to stop the crash, but it still seems a bug in firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run firefox.
2. Visit URL cited (or, apparently, any city conditions & forecast page
Actual Results:  
The site starts to load, gets what seems like nearly all of the way through, and then all firefox windows disappear. The xterm where I started it has this message on it:

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 20316 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)


Expected Results:  
not crash

Comment 1

[Timothy Miller]

Attachment: "wget -k -p -H <url>" capture of a broken page as bzipped tar file

in the attached file, view ffbug/www.wunderground.com/US/RI/Providence.html

Comment 2

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

Did you submit any Talkback reports when it crashed with 1.5? (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talkback)

What are the "wind graphics"?

Comment 3

[Timothy Miller]

Talkback never runs (I just checked to be sure, and it is installed, on all the copies I've tried this on).

The wind graphics are apparently this picture of a compass rose with a red outlined wedge superimposed on it to indicated graphically what direction the wind is coming from. The compass rose base image is at http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/wui-compass.gif and the image that apparently has all the wedges in it is at http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/360arrows-r-nogray.gif. (I'm doing Copy Image Location on them on my XP firefox.)

Hm, interestingly, now I've tried it, simply trying to display that latter image (360-arrows-...) causes firefox on linux to crash with the same behavior as opening the wunderground page. Windows says it is an 11160 pixel width by 31 high image, 76678 bytes.

Comment 4

[Tracy Orf]

I've been seeing the same behavior when accessing wunderground.com.  I also tried wunderground.com with Epiphany 1.4.8 and see the same behavior.  Part of the page displays, but it crashes before the compass rose is displayed.

Comment 5

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

I think this is probably a dupe of bug #40931.
If you install Adblock and make sure that large image is blocked, then load the page again, does it still crash?

Comment 6

[Tracy Orf]

Installing Ad Block and blocking the images prevents the crash when viewing the page.

Comment 7

[Philip Withnall (unavailable)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40931 ***