351473 - Firefox crashes/hangs when navigating around on syria-news.com

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 156493

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6

The problem accures in several website like the one I am sending now, when I click on any link in that page the firefox crashes and disapeares from my screen.I removed the extentions but nothing changed!
example of the websites that crashed my firefox (http://www.syria-news.com/multi.php), however I tried it on other browsers and it worked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the page
2.click on one of the links.
3.browser crashes and disapeares at once
4.case happens again and again

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

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

Also, can you type about:plugins in the location bar, hit enter and tell me if a plugin called npYstate.dll is loaded?

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

There is no crash for my Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060905 BonEcho/2.0b2. But when I open the following URL the whole browser doesn't react. Closing the main window leaves a zombie process which has to be killed by the help of the process manager.

http://www.syria-news.com/rwm22.php?m=3

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So is this branch-only?  I do see the browser not quitting on the URL in comment 2 on branch, but it works fine on trunk.  All of this on Linux.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Linux seems not to be affected. I tried a current nightly build from 2.0 branch and 1.5.0.6. Both versions freeze immediately when clicking the link from comment 2. I have to kill them with the process manager.

Will this be raised by the java applet? I have installed Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 6.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

I downloaded Update 8 and tested the pages again without any freeze or crash. Reading the release notes of update 8 shows that there a listed some crasher and freezing bugs which are fixed by update 8.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/ReleaseNotes.html#150_08

The plugins page on amo still points to Update 7:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/plugins/

Seems that java.com are some days behind the official release. 

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Reporter, which java version do you have installed? If its lower than Update 8 please upgrade and test again. Thank you.

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yeah, the java thing is very likely to be it...

Comment 8

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Tested with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6 and Java version "1.5.0_06"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_06-b05, mixed mode, sharing)

No Crash but Java Exception.

Laden: Klasse NPDS.npDSEvtObsProxy.class nicht gefunden
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: NPDS.npDSEvtObsProxy.class
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.loadCode(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.createApplet(Unknown Source)
	at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.createApplet(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.runLoader(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: open HTTP connection failed.
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.getBytes(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
	at sun.applet.AppletClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	... 10 more

Comment 9

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156493 ***