416667 - Veoh TV plugin disrupts reloading saved sessions

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)

Description

[Dave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Build 2.0.0.6 reloaded all tabs and sessions correctly.  Since I upgraded to 2.0.0.11 and 2.0.0.12, tabs and sessions load erratically, but rarely load correctly.  Most generally each tab says "Loading", but the address bar is blank.  Also, not all windows reload.  If I restore 2.0.0.6, restore works correctly, again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open 2 Firefox windows
2.Open say 3 tabs in each window.
3.Close Firefox by either File/Exit or a Windows Shutdown
4.  Restart Firefox or restart Windows.  
Actual Results:  
At either restart, either all tabs will show as "Loading" but nothing will ever load.  In addition, whether one or 2 Windows will open is erratic.

Expected Results:  
I would expect in either case that 2 Firefox windows would open and each windows would load 3 tabs, with my prior contents.

After looking around here, and doing some testing, this is what I found.  
I uninstalled Firefox, and reloaded 2.0.0.12.  Still had the problem.  
Ran Firefox with a new profile.  Still had the problem.  
Reloaded 2.0.0.6.  Reloading worked correctly.  
Ran Firefox in safe mode - Reloading worked correctly.
Disabled Veoh TV plugin 1.2.  Reloading worked correctly.
Upgraded Veoh TV, 3.8.2.1104.  The still leaved the 1.2 plugin.  Enabled that and the problem still occurs.  Did a bugzilla search and found a few other problems that seem to be related to this plugin.  

Session restore is something I really like, and I rely on it to keep what I'm doing, so I can restore sites I am visiting.  I don't know if the bug is in Veoh or Firefox.  I have reported what I found to Veoh, as well.  I can work around it now, but it would be nice to have it fixed.

Comment 1

[[:Cww]]

Ok, unfortunately, we can't support all the many plugins written by third-parties in Bugzilla.  As you've already confirmed that the problem occurs only with the one plugin, it seems that this isn't actually a Firefox bug.  I'm marking this as INVALID.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention, though.  This will help us help the next user who may have the same issue.