409566 - Adblock and Java applet are crashing - infinite recursion in plugin

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect, P2)

Description

[James Perlman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

At least for me, and I tried this several times including after a reboot, attempting to run Secunia's software inspector in FF 3 Beta 2 crashed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Page
2.  Go through screens.
3.
Actual Results:  
Crash

Expected Results:  
Run Secunia Inspector to completion.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

works for me - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007122105 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Comment 2

[James Perlman]

Based on the fact that it worked for you, I had an idea and it panned-out.  I am not a programmer, or anything, but I tried to run Secunia after disabling the Ad-Blocker Plus add-on.  That did the trick.  So that's where the conflict appears to be.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

I can confirm this crash with :
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2007121403 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre
Java Plug-in 1.6.0_03 
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3

There is somewhere a different bug report about another applet with the same problem

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You get a security warning from java if you Start the Scan, if you confirm it you get a crash, if you store the selection (always trust ..) it seems to work on the next time without crash.

My crashreporter seems to be unhappy to send the report at the moment...

Comment 5

[James Perlman]

I also encountered the problem with crashreporter not functioning each time I crashed.  However, at least with my configuration, I did not receive the security warning from Java before starting the scan or a crash caused by Java.  My only conflict is with AdBlocker, which I was able to resolve by merely adding Secunia to the disable Adblocker list.  My hunch is the difference between my experience with Java and Mattias's is perhaps that he has never used Secunia before.

Comment 6

[Kevin Brosnan]

Report it to the developer of the extension. I am not sure if you used adblock or adblock plus so here are links to each forum.

http://adblock.mozdev.org/forum.html/no_wrap
http://adblockplus.org/forum/

Comment 7

[James Perlman]

Sorry for the confusion, it is AdBlocker Plus.

Comment 8

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bedcf25c-b1ba-11dc-9c38-001a4bd43e5c?date=2007-12-24-00
(stack overflow)

Comment 9

[timeless]

1138  	CallWindowProcAorW  	
1139 	CallWindowProcA 	
1140 	jpinscp.dll@0x3788 	
1141 	InternalCallWinProc 	
1142 	UserCallWinProcCheckWow 	
1143 	CallWindowProcAorW 	
1144 	CallWindowProcA 	
1145 	PluginWndProc 	d:\builds\tinderbox\seamonkeytrunk\winnt_5.2_depend\mozilla\modules\plugin\base\src\nspluginnativewindowwin.cpp:357
1146 	InternalCallWinProc 	
1147 	UserCallWinProcCheckWow 	
1148 	DispatchClientMessage 	
1149 	__fnINOUTLPSCROLLINFO 	
1150 	ntdll.dll@0x60e6d 	
1151 	nsView::DoResetWidgetBounds(int, int) 	d:\builds\tinderbox\seamonkeytrunk\winnt_5.2_depend\mozilla\view\src\nsview.cpp:411 

Comment 10

[Wladimir Palant]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Report it to the developer of the extension. I am not sure if you used adblock
> or adblock plus so here are links to each forum.

Thank you but an extension written in JavaScript usually cannot be responsible for a crash. In this case, it seems to be a Gecko issue (one of the many when content policies hit Java).

Comment 11

[Wladimir Palant]

http://www.z-u-l.de/doc_en/Tutorial/tut-2-1x.html seems to be another occurrence of the same bug. It crashes for me every time I reload the page, stack (http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/ef3af2e8-c55e-11dc-aa10-001a4bd43ef6?date=2008-01-18-00) looks very similar to the one quoted above. Note that this page works fine in Firefox 2.0.0.11 - Adblock or not.

Comment 12

[Bernardo G. Babbini]

I can confirm the crash of Firefox 3 Beta 3 Portable (PortableApps) with Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3.

When ABP is enabled, the crash occurs even if it's disabled on Secunia address.
When ABP is NOT enabled, the crash doesn't occurs.

Comment 13

[timeless]

for reference, "disabling" an extension for a url doesn't prevent it from running on the url, it merely asks it to do as little work as possible when it hits the url. which is why being disabled for secunia but not disabled is just as likely to crash as enabled in general as long as the problem is on the gecko side of things :).

Comment 14

[IU]

I filed Bug 422324, but it's likely a dupe of this bug.  Here are my steps to reproducing the bug, along with my Breakpad IDs:

Steps to Reproduce (WinXP SP2):
1. Install JRE SE 6 Update 5, if you don't already have it installed
2. Make sure both JavaScript and Java are enabled.
3. Install either Adblock Plus, NoScript, or both,  then visit http://processing.org/learning/3d/lights1.html
4. Cycle through the various applets by clicking the drop-down list (on the left) and waiting for the applet to load.

Breakpad IDs:
---------------------------------------
bp-7e56f794-eff3-11dc-bc74-001a4bd43ed6
bp-a3729d7d-f010-11dc-94b8-001a4bd43e5c
bp-f2935aeb-f010-11dc-a2c2-001a4bd43ef6
bp-fdf7ad1e-f010-11dc-a7d2-001a4bd43e5c
bp-fe76c4f0-f010-11dc-a661-001a4bd46e84
bp-05add6ab-f011-11dc-b780-001a4bd43e5c
bp-01eaff6b-f012-11dc-b249-001a4bd43ed6
bp-756d885e-f056-11dc-8a5a-001a4bd46e84
bp-8ff0e07d-f056-11dc-b9f2-001a4bd46e84
bp-d458effd-f056-11dc-8a88-001a4bd43ed6
bp-de5b62b5-f056-11dc-a2d1-001a4bd43ed6

Comment 15

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

This problem also occur with Noscript Estension release 1.5.6 and 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5 ID:2008032620

Ciao

Comment 16

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Johnny, can you take a look at this bug and bug 422324 which is likely the same? Judging by the stack in 422324, this looks like it's the number 23 topcrash for Firefox 3. Is there anything we can do here?

Comment 17

[Wladimir Palant]

Actually, bug 422324 is certainly a duplicate of bug 421833 - not sure about this bug.

Comment 18

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mats, any chance you could look into this recurse to death bug?

Comment 19

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Sorry, can't reproduce it.  Tried both Firefox 3.0 final and a local 1.9.0
debug build on Windows XPSP2, using Java Plug-in 1.6.0_07 +
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 + NoScript 1.7.6 (currently the latest versions).
The Secunia inspector runs to completion and the Java Applets in comment 14
works fine, even when running them at the same time in different tabs,
running several applets in different tabs/windows, reloading pages,
closing tabs and windows etc...  no problem.

I tried the following add-on combinations:
ABP
ABP + NoScript
NoScript

(the URL in comment 11 is dead so couldn't test it)

Comment 20

[IU]

(In reply to comment #19)
> [...]and the Java Applets in comment 14
> works fine, even when running them at the same time in different tabs,
> running several applets in different tabs/windows, reloading pages,
> closing tabs and windows etc...  no problem.
> 
> 
You have to cycle through the applets in the same tab (i.e. use only one tab and cycle through the applets, one after another, once the applet loads and is showing the animation).

Comment 21

[Robert Kaiser]

OJI has been discontinued and Java now runs out-of-process, so this stuff has probably changed a lot. This bug has no info about current software versions, please file a new bug for new issues or reopen this one with current info, including a crash signature if it still happens and move it to a component outside of graveyard.